Easter Festival – A Sacred & Secular Love & Life Celebration
At Easter the challenge in Christian theology is managing the two sides of the coin together, commerce and Christianity. They must be held in a unique tension.
French Revolution
Art, Advancing Freedom for All – Liberté Égalité Fraternite
Lucile Clerc’s pencil has a powerful point, her inspiring cartoon ‘yesterday today tomorrow’ reveals how art might best help the west retain freedoms sorely won
Costume & Style – Fashion Reflects Culture and Growth Pt 3
After the French Revolution a man’s costume was severely elegant worn by dashing gallants in cravats with women emulating the classical purity of Greek statues
Empress Josephine at Château Malmaison – Woman of Influence
An impressive woman, Josephine (as Napoleon decided she should be known), aided his route to power and had a profound influence on the future of horticulture
Germaine de Staël – Woman of Letters and Social Influence
Writer Madame de Stael Baroness of Staël-Holstein’s brilliant salon at Paris before and after the French revolution was a meeting place for men of great minds
Revolutionaries and Romantics – Politics, Poetry and Passion
The late 18th and early 19th century in England, Europe and America was a period of romantics and revolutionaries, politics, poetry, passion and enlightenment