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Group discussion; The Listener Effete, overrated snobs? Or maligned cultural revolutionaries? Whatever you think of the Bloomsbury Group, they refuse to go away. This week's selection from the best of BBC Radio is a debate inspired by the latest exhibitions of their art
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THE SPEAKERS
1 SARAH DUNANT
Presenter
1 RICHARD SHONE
Curator of the major exhibition on the 'Art of Bloomsbury',
currently showing at the Tate Gallery, London
1 HERMIONE LEE
Academic and biographer of Virginia Woolf
1 NIGEL JONES
Journalist, critic and biographer of Rupert Brooke
1 REGINA MARLER
Author of Bloomsbury Pie, a history of the Bloomsbury revival
RICHARD SHONE: I've always thought of the Bloomsbury Group as
modest artists who made a definite but perhaps rather limited
contribution to British culture in the great unbuttoning moment
before the First World War. And I hope ...
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Leonora Nattrass, William Cobbett: The Politics of Style.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose
; Leonora Nattrass, William Cobbett: The Politics of Style (Cambridge...articles have been written about William Cobbett, who was almost certainly the...interesting new book entitled William Cobbett: The Politics of Style approaches...
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William Cobbett and Rural Popular Culture.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History
; ...Dr. Dyck's study of William Cobbett (1763-1835), one...Reform Act of 1832. Cobbett has attracted distinguished...people as diverse as William Hazlitt, Leslie Stephens...and Michael Foot. Cobbett's exotic personality...
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Books: A great Englishman: bold, rebellious, egotistical The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett By Richard Ingrams HARPERCOLLINS pounds 20 pounds 18 (P&P FREE) 08700 798 897
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday
; ...finally MP. For those of us Cobbett fans who have read a couple...and often very funny writer. Cobbett is best known for his book...the view, shared by Ruskin, William Morris, G K Chesterton and...for example, of resurrecting Cobbett's History of the Protestant...
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A champion of little men, a scourge of politicians and a benchmark for journalism . . . the life of William Cobbett
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald
; ...LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF WILLIAM COBBETT BY RICHARD INGRAMS...English journalism, William Cobbett, was a bit of a rogue...rich patrons, such as William Windham, who bankrolled...earlier career. However, Cobbett established, almost...
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Radical rowdies: a public falling-out ended the close political friendship between two leaders of reform in early nineteenth-century Britain. A familiar scenario?(William Cobbett and Henry Hunt)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...undated letter written by William Cobbett one Monday evening to...New York. The life of William Cobbett is well documented...nineteenth century, the man William Hazlitt called 'a kind...politics of the country'. Cobbett's weekly Political...
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An extraordinary Englishman The campaigning journalist William Cobbett saw life in black and white - now Richard Ingrams has provided the colour, says Noel Malcolm
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; WHEN WILLIAM COBBETT died in 1835, the obituary in The...however, on which the defence of Cobbett becomes a trickier business. One is...principle no one was safe, least of all William Cobbett.) But there are some other moments...
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Embracing the fog.(THE HOME FORUM)(William Cobbett)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor
; ...book titled "Rural Rides," by William Cobbett, one of England's more serious...18th and early 19th centuries. Cobbett, for much of his life, was at...of all investigative reporters. Cobbett's "Rural Rides" grew out of...
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Travel etc: Grand Tours: Follow in the footsteps of William Cobbett
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...illustrious guests, including Cobbett's contemporary William Thackeray who wrote "Vanity...105-mile marathon worthy of Cobbett himself, from Eastbourne to...through the ages, including in Cobbett's era. Getting there If you...
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Wednesday Book: Following William Cobbett in a Ford Escort Rural Drives: a journey through English housing policy by Will Hatchett (York Publishing Services, pounds 9.95)
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; WHEN WILLIAM Cobbett rode into Brighton from Lewes in 1822, he found the town had spread...So they sent Will Hatchett, then editor of Housing, "to be a William Cobbett on wheels, to go up to Newcastle by the back routes, nailing down...
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Travel etc: Grand Tours: A wet rural ride on St Swithin's Day Adventures in literature from the world's great writers. This week, William Cobbett
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; The radical journalist and politician William Cobbett was born in Farnham, Surrey, in 1762. He spent four...people of these villages were as free in the days of William Rufus as are the people of the present day and that vassalage...
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