Bath, Art and Architecture

Tuesday, 10 April 2018

Cheere Busts, Codrington Library, All Souls College, Oxford University.

As most of my posts this is a work in progress and acts as an aide memoire and on line filing system and will need updating as more inf...

Tuesday, 3 April 2018

Memorial to Joseph Smith by William Tyler R.A. 1756. Queen's College, Oxford

Dr Joseph Smith (1670 - 1756). The Mural Memorial with a Bust. by William Tyler R.A. (c. 1728 - 1801). 1756. At The Queen's...

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David Bridgwater: "The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls a fig a fig and a spade a spade. He should yield to neither hatred nor affection, not should be unsparing and unpitying. He should be neither shy nor deprecating, but an impartial judge, giving each side all it deserves but no more. He should know in his writing no country and no city; he should bow to no authority and acknowledge no king. He should never consider what this or that man will think, but should state the facts as they really occurred. Lucian of Samosata

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