Podcasts about old hall

British politicians love to invoke the family, from John Major's "Back to Basics" campaign, to New Labour's "hardworking families" - and now a prominent strain of the Conservative right says parents sticking together for the sake of the children is "the only possible basis for a safe and successful society". By turning family values into a political football, are they in denial about the way society has developed this century? For decades, single-person households have been the fastest-growing demographic and younger generations are re-defining romantic commitments and their purpose.Is the erosion of traditional structure around marriage and family a destructive thing for society, or does it offer the kind of freedom and individual choice denied to previous generations? Presenter: Zoe Strimpel Producer: David Reid Editor: Clare FordhamContributors: Danny Kruger, Conservative Member of Parliament for Devizes and Co-Chair of the New Conservatives: Committing to a Better Politics. Dr. Ruth Beecher, Historian of Modern Britain and the United States, Birkbeck, University of London Prof. Deborah Cohen, Richard W. Leopold Professor of History at Northwestern University. Prof. Sasha Roseneil, Vice Chancellor of the University of Sussex. Prof. Sylvie Fogelj-Bijaoui, sociologist specialising in gender, human rights, the family and the kibbutz. Daisy Lees, resident of Old Hall Chris Lees, resident of Old Hall Rob Connigale, resident of Old Hall

Eating with the Tudors is more than a guide to Tudor eating, it is a description of the changing world of monarchs and their people in the sixteenth century. Tudor food expert Brigitte Webster joins us to share her extraordinary research about how Tudors ate and lived.Show notes:Carol Ann Lloydwww.carolannlloyd.com@shakeuphistorypatreon.com/carolannlloydThe Tudors by Numbers, published by Pen and SwordBrigitte Websterwww.tudorexperience.comInstagram: tudor_experienceFacebook: Tudor and 17th Century ExperienceTwitter: @tudorfoodrecipeBooks: Eating with the Tudors, A Banquet at the Old HallCreative Director: Lindsey LindstromMusic: History by Andy_Grey via Audio Jungle, Music Broadcast LicenseLet's shake up history together!@shakeuphistory

Norra Trio Mediæval laulab oma uusimal albumil 15. sajandist pärit keskaegseid motette ja missa ordinaariumi osi, mille käsikiri oli 400 aastat kadunud.

Gresley Old Hall in Derbyshire is a 500 year old haunted building that was built using the stone from a monastery For the Paranormgirl Podcast Youtube: https://youtube.com/@paranormgirlpod?si=dfeJOtPEF4aSry97 Spotify: https://spotify.link/92cj4StTFDb Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-paranorm-girl/id1559141422 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ghosttalespodcast/support

Gresley Old Hall in Derbyshire is a 500 year old haunted building that was built using the stone from a monastery For the Paranormgirl Podcast Youtube: https://youtube.com/@paranormgirlpod?si=dfeJOtPEF4aSry97 Spotify: https://spotify.link/92cj4StTFDb Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-paranorm-girl/id1559141422 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ghosttalespodcast/support

For the third and final course of our mini-series on feasts enjoyed at English Heritage sites through the ages, we're joined by senior properties historian Dr Nick Holder and senior curator Kevin Booth to look back at the feasting and food preparation that took place at one of England's biggest and best-preserved medieval manor houses: Gainsborough Old Hall. Discover who built the hall, who worked in its kitchens and the kings who came to dine here. To find out more or plan a visit to Gainsborough Old Hall, go to www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/gainsborough-old-hall.

We're celebrating Christmas in July!This week, we return to Old Hall for a Christmas with my dear friend Brigitte Webster.Show Notes:Host: Carol Ann LloydGuest: Brigitte Websterwww.tudorexperience.comInstagram: tudor_experienceFacebook: Tudor and 17th Century ExperienceTwitter: @tudorfoodrecipeBook: A Banquet at the Old HallCreative Director: Lindsey LindstromMusic: Inspiring Dramatic Pack by Smart Sounds via Audio Jungle; Music Broadcast License

At Old Hall, visitors can experience and feel history. That's never more true than at Christmas!Show Notes:Host: Carol Ann LloydGuest: Brigitte Websterwww.tudorexperience.comInstagram: tudor_experienceFacebook: Tudor and 17th Century ExperienceTwitter: @tudorfoodrecipeBook: A Banquet at the Old HallCreative Director: Lindsey LindstromMusic: Historical Documentary licensed through Audio Jungle/Envato Markets

Tudors spent their summers working hard, playing hard, enjoying season fruits, and sometimes having a great time. Brigitte Webster of Tudor & 17th Century Experience continues to share her expertise on how Tudors enjoyed their summers.Find more about Brigitte and how you can immerse yourself in a real Tudor experience at https://www.tudorexperience.com and be sure to follow her on Instagram (@tudor_experience), Facebook (Tudor & 17th Century Experience), and Twitter (@tudorfoodrecipe). 

From special summer food to the Banqueting House, and from harvest days to feasting, Tudor summers were a time of working hard and celebrating. Brigitte Webster, owner of Tudor and 17th Century Experience, shares the details of Tudor summer fun and feasting. Living at Old Hall, a 16th century home, Brigitte experiences the full Tudor experience. Brigitte shares the fun of a Tudor summer, which included gathering together to share a meal, eating outside, and discovering and enjoying the power of sugar.

Zondagse zomermuziek van nieuwe uitgaven, waarbij de grenzen van de klassieke muziek regelmatig & vrijmoedig worden opgezocht. Wat te denken van de nieuwe CD Gothic Voices, Echoes of an Old Hall - muziek uit de 14e en vroege 15e eeuw uit het Old Hall Manuscript, een verzameling uit de jaren '20 van de 15e eeuw dat zo heet omdat het afkomstig is uit St Edmund's College, Old Hall Green, in Hertfordshire. Hoe Engels wil je het hebben? En: elke week een Doorgeef-CD met de vraag aan welk gedicht de muziek je doet denken... 23.04 CD Haydn Webern Brahms (Footloose flcl1019096) Joseph Haydn: Strijkkwartet opus 76 nr 2 in d-klein - I Allegro Vespucci Quartet 6'13” 23.12 CD Echoes of an old hall (LINN CDK644) Mayshuet de Joan: Arae post libamina/Nunc surgunt Gothic Voices 1'35” CD Echoes of an old hall (LINN CDK644) John Cooke: Gloria in excelsis Gothic Voices 4'05” CD Echoes of an old hall (LINN CDK644) John Dunstaple: Ave regina caelorum Gothic Voices 3'56” CD Echoes of an old hall (LINN CDK644) John Cooke: Stella caeli extirpavit Gothic Voices 1'23” CD Echoes of an old hall (LINN CDK644) Anoniem: Agnus Dei Gothic Voices 2'17” 23.30 eigen opname musici Peter Tiehuis; Beate Loonstra: Beeld en verbeelding Peter Tiehuis [gitaar]; Beate Loonstra [harp] 8'01” 23.36 CD By your side (FullHouse 014) Gosia Julia Maj: Once I was in love Gosia Julia Maj [zang]; Thomas Zoetelief [gitaar]; Koos Wiltenburg [bas]; Arno van Nieuwenhuize [slagwerk] 5'48” 23.43 CD Frisbee (ZenneZ Records ZR210511) Oene van Geel: Let the trees speak Oene van Geel [altviool]; Tom van Dyck [saxofoon] 2'59” CD Frisbee (ZenneZ Records ZR210511) Tom van Dyck: We met again Oene van Geel [altviool]; Tom van Dyck [saxofoon] 7'37”

We're joined by senior curator Kevin Booth and senior properties historian Nick Holder to discover the story of one of England's best-preserved medieval buildings, its former owners, and its changing uses over the centuries. We also reveal what has been happening behind closed doors to prepare it to be reopened to visitors under English Heritage's stewardship and what to look out for during a visit. To learn more about Gainsborough Old Hall or to plan a visit, go to www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/gainsborough-old-hall

If you are someone who loves to pack your bags and hit the road to see your Tudor history and want loads of inspiration and top tips for travelling and visiting historic locations here in the UK, then this show is for you. Each month, I will be teaming up with Philippa Brewell from 'British History Tours' to answer your most pressing travel-related questions, hearing from a guest about their favourite historic place to stay (or take rest and refreshment). In this month's episode, Philippa and I discuss what things to pack when you visit the UK. With such a variety of weather, we share our tips on making sure you're prepared for any type of weather during your trip - come rain, shine, or snow! I'm also joined by a special guest, Brigitte Webster, from 'The Tudor and 17th Century Experience', where we talk about a very exciting event I am holding in conjunction with her later this year.   To find out more about the upcoming 'Live Like A Tudor' immersion weekend click here.    In the meantime, if you want to keep up to date with all the Tudor Travel Guide's adventures, as well as top tips for planning your own Tudor road trip, don't forget to subscribe to the blog via www.thetudortravelguide.com.   This podcast now has an accompanying closed Facebook group, dedicated to discussing the places and artefacts discussed in each episode. it is also a place to ask your fellow Tudor time travellers questions about visiting Tudor locations or planning your Tudor-themed vacation or sharing your top tips to help others get the most out of their Tudor adventures on the road. Go to The Tudor History & Travel Show: Hitting the Road to join the community.    You can also find The Tudor Travel Guide on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest.   Show Credits: Presenter: Sarah Morris with guests: Philippa Brewell from British History Tours Brigitte Webster from Tudor and 17th Century Experience    Produced by Cutting Crew Productions

In this episode I visit a place with a long and numerous history of Ghosts. The Old Hall in Sandbach is listed as one of the most haunted places in Britain and is right on Yvette Fielding's doorstep... not just her's, it's also on mine. Opposite St. John's Church (where my Aunty and Uncle were married) it is a popular hotel (in which my In-Laws celebrated their wedding day) that does not shy away from it's history of hauntings. There are no less than 3 tunnels between the church and the old hall - the most famous of those being the Priest hole that the Priests used to escape attacks during the Civil War period. There are no less than 14 hauntings reported in this building and I take a look at the most plausible and a couple that aren't so plausible. If you are unfamiliar with the place you can find a brief overview here : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Hall_Hotel,_Sandbach - this site details the most famous hauntings (from the TV show Most Haunted) https://www.tributemosthaunted.co.uk/most-haunted-episodes/most-haunted-season-5/old-hall-hotel-sandbach/ and here is the site that has the interview with the member of staff https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/things-go-bump-night-5297991 - if you would like to contact me you can do so via the website https://tallboyradio.wordpress.com/a-history-of-hauntings/ or by emailing me HHauntingPod@hotmail.com or on twitter at https://twitter.com/HHauntingPod/ The opening music for this podcast is "Weak Knight" by Devon Church and the closing music is "BDS" by Lewis Pickford

介绍英国文艺复兴最早的音乐家Leonel Power，以及记载了重要作品的珍贵藏稿Old Hall Manuscript。01 Sanctus - Missa Alma Redemptoris Mater.mp302 Messen und Motetten - Ibo michi ad monte.mp303 Messen und Motetten - Beata viscera.mp304 Messen und Motetten - Gloria, OH 21.mp305 Power - Beata Progenies.mp306 Power, Leonel- Ave regina coelorum, Antiphon OH 43.mp3

Halloween is here! This week curators Melissa and Poppy take a tour of museum collections to find the best artefacts that celebrate the spooky season. We hear the ghostly tale of the Old Hall Dobby, appreciate some dancing skeletons, and discover the origins of the ultimate symbol of Halloween itself... the Jack-o-Lantern!And if you're already looking ahead to Christmas, we have a delightfully festive tale for this week's item spotlight...Thanks for listening! Find us: Instagram @ThingsinJarsPodcast // Twitter @ThingsinJarsPodSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/thingsinjarspodcast)

On this episode Stacia and Siofra discuss a TV appearance of a ghost at Morley Old Hall near Wymondham. Renowned SPR member Tony Cornell and Anglia TV investigated the hall in the 1960s. After the show aired they received an unexpected response from viewers. The ladies also discuss how the show influenced Ghostwatch, one of the most infamous horror programmes. They also look into who the ghostly monk might be. 

This week Paul celebrates world book day with the students and teachers of Old Hall Primary School in Bury and gets their feelings and opinions on what the day means to them and why they want to celebrate.First broadcast on Rossendale Radio 08.03.20

Hello Crochet Circlers,   Welcome to The Crochet Circle Podcast and the show notes from Episode Seventeen - Festival of Finishing.   In this episode I cover: Wolf woman of Cheshire; Edinburgh Yarn Festival 2018; Old dog, new tricks; Festival of Finishing CrAL; FOs; WIPs; Feeding the habit; Big up and What's good?   This podcast is sponsored by my online crafting company, Provenance Craft Co.  Thanks to everyone who tunes into the podcast whether it is through Stitcher, Podbean, Spotify, iTunes or the YouTube Channel. Your support and engagement are really appreciated and makes running a podcast very special and worthwhile.    If you would like to support the podcast, you can do that through Patreon:   1 - Old dog, new tricks On the back of the 'standing crochet stitch' tip that Claudia from the Crochet Luna Podcast gave me.     Eleanor kindly passed on links for the 'starting crochet stitch' which gives a new technique for starting a new row or possibly round in the same colour. Please ignore that fact that I referred to 'standing' crochet during the podcast, I meant 'starting' crochet.    Eleanor's link was to a blog by Tamara Kelly from Moggly.com: Starting dc (tr in UK terminology)   A little further investigation brought me to this site by Jessie at Home which also gives details for starting dc (sc in US) and starting htc (hdc in US).     I have investigated the differences when you use this technique in rows but want to do more to see how it can be used in the round, if at all.       I have pulled together a blog post on using the standing dc to show how to do it and the results that you get compared to the standard turning chain method.    2 - Festival of Finishing CrAL Our latest along is the Festival of Finishing Craft Along.  The idea is that through the months of June, July and August you work with some of your crafting WIPs.  I now have two (cross stitch and knitting) that I want to work on and one to salvage.     The graphic for the CrAL looks like this, and you will see it on Ravelry and Instagram.       I have been thinking long and hard on the reasons that projects become long-term WIPs and why we consequently get hung up about them and can even begin to feel some level of guilt.    Rather than add all of the detail into the show notes, I wrote a detailed blog about it instead.  It's full of pointers and will hopefully help you to view your long-term WIPs in a positive and re-energised way.   Grab a cuppa and take a look at 'Why you don't finish projects and what you can do about it'.   I would love you to get involved with the CrAL and share what you are up to within the Ravelry thread in The Crochet Circle Podcast Group or by using #FestivalOfFinishing on Instagram.   A pile each for: finish, frog, salvage or donate will really help you to work out what you could do with each project.  Three of my WIPs are now going to be heading off to the Blanket of Love and Hope project in Sweden to be sewn into a larger blanket and distributed to women that need a woolly hug - thanks Yael for telling me about the wonderful project that you, Emmie and Hedvig do.         As an additional element, via my company Provenance Craft CoI am going to donate £1 for every finished object (that was previously a long-term WIP) that is added to Instagram using #FestivalOfFinishing, or added to the Ravelry thread.   The amount will be capped at £150 and I would LOVE to reach that target.  The charity that will benefit from the money is Knit for Peace. Here is what they do:   Our policy is to encourage people to give, whether it is time or money. So we set about finding outlets. We now distribute regularly to over 200 outlets, including hospitals, women’s refuges, refugee drop-in centres, prisons, community groups, and hospices as well as to developing countries. We send the knitting (and crochet) to where it’s needed. We also pass on donations of yarn and needles to enable people on low incomes to knit. The operation has grown organically, and we estimate we have over 15,000 knitters. Send your knitting to us and we will make sure that it goes to a good home.   If together we finish 150 long-term WIPs, the £150 that I will donate will help to deliver over 750 woollen items to people that really need them.   Feel free to also join in with the charitable donations and give £1 or more for every WIP you have that becomes a finished object.   Here is the 69-year-old WIP that Ros's Mum kindly let me photograph.       As I was pulling together the information for the show Jojotwinkletoes put this up on Instgram and it sums up beautifully (well maybe not) what I intend do after my long-term WIPS has become finished object.        3 - Finished Objects  Once again, I didn't think I had much to show for myself, and once again I was wrong!     1 - Another version of Doppio Colosseum but this time in John Arbon Devonia 4 ply in 'Pollen Gold'. 2 - A pair of charity socks for the Sock Line by Winwick Mum. 3 - A first attempt at a cotton dishcloth by Jo at Feather and Thread.  Check Jo's patterns out and see her photo of them below - they are much nicer than my attempt (partial blame to the fact that I was gripped by Broadchaurch whilst crocheting it).       4 - I was shown this pattern for face pads by Lisa and they are fantastic!  The pattern is by Designs byZula and gives a lovely squishy pad for washing your face and taking off make up.   I have also been working on a couple of designs:     Versa is the second complete bag in the range that I am working towards and is being tech edited as I type, along with the below shawl. I discovered post-crocheting it that the shawl seems to be very heavily influenced by a cottage that I owned (pre-Matthew) in Chirk, North Wales. Clearly, the gothic windows that dominated the estate worker's cottages stayed with me:     My final FO for the month was the Miso shawl by Ambah O'Brien using Tia Merino in The Mysterious Cities of Gold colourway by Countess Ablaze.  I knitted this shawl as part of a KAL with my favourite new knitting podcast Fibre Friends. I wasn't initially sure about a single-ply yarn for this shawl but the result is beautifully squishy:       4 - Works in progress There is only one WIP this month and that is a grey cotton bag - the next in the range.  You can see it in the photo for the 'starting dc crochet' rows above - there really isn't much much to show you with that design yet.   5 - Feeding the habit Only one thing to show here and that is a gorgeous citrus bag by Ann from Busy Pottering:     It came with a lovely notions pouch and some stitch markers - I love them!   6 - Big up There are some great new crochet podcasts out there: Hannah from Florida has The Cozy Cottage Podcast on YouTube Lindsey from Lottie and Albert is also on YouTube Alyson and Vivian have a lovely Mum and daughter audio podcast that airs on YouTube called Keep Calm and Carry Yarn There is a new thread in the Ravelry group for people to add in any CALs/KALs that they know about.   7 - What's Good 10th June is World Knit (and crochet) in Public Day. I am holding a small event in Sandbach at The Old Hall between 11am and 3pm if anyone is local and fancies joining in?     I have been listening to the amazing Norse Mythology audiobook, written and narrated by Neil Gaiman.  I will listen to this again in the not too distant future!    Matthew has been on gardening leave and is currently working on what happens next...   It has been lovely to be able to spend more time with him as the pressures of his old employment cease to exist!  We have a lovely summer ahead of us and I am searching for coastal areas that we could live in.  Watch this space.   Until July folks.     Fay x   Instagram: Crochet_Circle_Podcast  Instagram: provenance.craft.co   Instagram: FayDHDesigns YouTube: The Crochet Circle Podcast Crochet Clan on Mighty Network: Invite  

Jim Morris is the Managing Director of Lifeline Fire & Safety Systems, founded in 1994, located in Coventry, England. They are the leading manufacturer of fire suppression and safety equipment in the motorsport and defense sectors. He is also the Managing Director of Old Hall Performance, a European distribution business specializing in high performance U.S.A. brands including Red Line Synthetic Oil, Flowmaster, Heatshield, MAC’s Custom Tie Downs, Gold Plug, BSCI seating, and more. He is the Chairman of the Motorsports Industry Association and the Governor of the Priors School. Jim is an amateur racer, enthusiast, and collector.

Wolfson's President, Professor Hermione Lee, gave an evocative lecture at Lincoln's Inn, London, entitled 'From Memory: Isaiah Berlin, Literary Encounters and Life-Stories' Professor Lee presented a lecture in the Old Hall concerning encounters between great men and women, and how they are remembered, narrated, and turned into legend. Professor Lee focused on an encounter between Wolfson College founder Isaiah Berlin and the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, which took place in Leningrad in 1945. Drawing on her research as one of our most renowned literary biographers, she recounted a number of other literary encounters, in order to explore questions about remembering and storytelling, disputed rival accounts, and how encounters can harden into myth. In dealing with life-writing, memory, and versions of the truth, the lecture addressed isues at the forefront of the College's Oxford Centre for Life Writing, one of a series of new research clusters at Wolfson

Wolfson's President, Professor Hermione Lee, gave an evocative lecture at Lincoln's Inn, London, entitled 'From Memory: Isaiah Berlin, Literary Encounters and Life-Stories' Professor Lee presented a lecture in the Old Hall concerning encounters between great men and women, and how they are remembered, narrated, and turned into legend. Professor Lee focused on an encounter between Wolfson College founder Isaiah Berlin and the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, which took place in Leningrad in 1945. Drawing on her research as one of our most renowned literary biographers, she recounted a number of other literary encounters, in order to explore questions about remembering and storytelling, disputed rival accounts, and how encounters can harden into myth. In dealing with life-writing, memory, and versions of the truth, the lecture addressed isues at the forefront of the College's Oxford Centre for Life Writing, one of a series of new research clusters at Wolfson

This week we schlep out to Branston to stare at big iron gates and high walls in the area around Branston Old Hall. The discovery of an orchard in the grid prompts the first and probably last editions of Jonny’s new quiz A Question Of Apples. Meanwhile, Paul ponders the preponderance of “No Dog Fouling” signs and we use all our considerable cunning to sneak into the off-limits part of the grid.We also hear memories of yesteryear from some of the village’s old timers, as well as more history from Jo Hughes and Tref’s take on the area. All this, plus another round of A Question of Lincoln.

This week, music from one of the many English Henrys.

Ramee label releases of music by composers Bononcini, Touchemoulin, and Gaultier, as well a look at Pomerium’s Old Hall label recording of Orlandus Lassus.

As a boy Constable often passed by this cottage, at the end of Fen Lane, when he walked down the lane on his way to school at Dedham. The cottage belonged to Peter Godfrey of Old Hall, East Bergholt, and one of his workmen probably lived in it. It had been demolished by 1885 (St John 2002, p. 29). Constable made two versions of this subject, the first painted largely outdoors in the vicinity of East Bergholtduring the summer of 1815 and completed in 1833(Victoria and Albert Museum, London), and this second version painted in his studio in London towards the end of 1816 or the beginning of 1817. He made a number of changes to the image, showing the scene at high summer with the field full of ripe corn, changing the quality of the light, adding the figure beside the cottage on the left, and the donkey and foal standing to the right of the gate. He probably relied on the drawing he had made of this subject around 1815 . As Ian Fleming-Williams and Leslie Parris have shown, the most marked difference between the painting of 1815/1833and this work is the way in which Constable painted the trees on the right. In this painting he appears to have based his trees on those in Martino Rota’s engraving after Titian’s Martyrdom of St Peter Martyr (destroyed), a work Constable greatly admired (Fleming-Williams and Parris 1984, pp. 138–41). Thus, even during a period when he was working close to nature, Constable combined different elements in his paintings in order to improve his composition. In his biography of Constable, Andrew Shirley perceptively remarked that it was ‘a picture compact with the true sentiment of observation, playing the contrast of the remoteness of human habitation against the thick, ripening, jungle life of the corn surging up to the walls of the cottage’ (Shirley 1949, p. 105).

Constable spent the summer and early autumn of 1814 in Suffolk, painting directly from nature. In this work he depicted a panoramic view over the Stour Valley from an elevated position on the road from Flatford to East Bergholt,showing Dedham Church and the village to the left of centre. By including labourers shovelling manure in the foreground Constable created a down-to-earth image of the landscape around his home at East Bergholt – and a realistic record of Suffolk farming practice, emphasising the value of honest rural labour. The men would have cleared the manure from the stockyards in summer and deposited it beside the fields to dry, before manuring the fields in early autumn (I. Fleming-Williams, ‘A runover dungle and a possible date for “Spring”’, Burlington Magazine, vol. 114, June 1972, pp. 386–93). Not long after he painted this work Constable wrote: ‘This charming season … occupies me entirely in the feilds and I beleive I have made some landscapes that are better than is usual with me – at least that is the opinion of all here‘ (Beckett II, p. 131). Constable painted this work as a preparatory study for a painting commissioned by Thomas Fitzhugh as a wedding present for his bride, Philadelphia Godfrey: The Stour Valley and Dedham Church c.1815 (Boston Museum of Fine Arts). Philadelphia was the daughter of the local squire, Peter Godfrey, and the painting was intended as a memento of the view of the valley she knew well and was leaving behind – a view of Dedham Vale from just outside the grounds of her home, Old Hall, East Bergholt.

Constable knew this scene well: the Stour Valley from just outside the grounds of Old Hall in East Bergholt, with the churches of Langham and Stratford St Mary villages in the distance. He depicted the ploughmen at work in a manner typical of Suffolk, using a swing plough, which was light and required only a single ploughman and two horses working side by side (rather than a team of four), considered to be an efficient, modern mode of ploughing, contributing to the productivity of the area (Rosenthal 1983, pp. 18–19). And he depicted a ‘summerland’, a field that was ploughed and harrowed in the spring, left fallow over the summer months as part of a two-year crop rotation system, ready for manuring in autumn and sowing in winter (ibid., p. 12). The contemporary farmer or countryman would have appreciated this image of agricultural life of Suffolk (Rosenthal, p. 21). Constable exhibited this first version of the subject at the Royal Academy in 1814 and at the British Institution in 1815, from where it was purchased by John Allnutt, a Clapham wine merchant and collector. As a result of this sale Constable was encouraged to pursue his career as a painter. Beckett has suggested that ‘in Constable’s memory such scenes were gilded with the light of eternal summer and the picture stood for a symbol’ (R.B. Beckett, ‘A Summerland by John Constable’, Art Quarterly, XXVII, summer 1964, p. 176). Constable certainly stressed the poetic aspect of the landscape, linking it to an established literary and pictorial tradition. In the 1814 Royal Academy catalogue, the entry for this work had an accompanying quotation from Robert Bloomfield’s The Farmer’s Boy – a long, 1500-line, four-part poem in heroic couplets composed between 1796–98 and published in 1800. This poem pointed to the solitary nature of the ploughman’s work: But, unassisted through each toilsome day, With smiling brow the Ploughman cleaves his way. In making this reference to poetry Constable implied that the image was not just of a particular place, but also expressed a more general mood and atmosphere, the ‘feel of nature’. Bloomfield was a ‘peasant poet’ of Suffolk, whose work appealed to Constable. He stressed the virtues of honest, hard farming life. Albert Boime has suggested that Bloomfield’s vision of farming life ‘appealed to the gentry, who identified themselves with his nostalgia for a bucolic past and his moralising posture on rural labour’ (A. Boime, Art in an Age of Bonapartism 1800–1815, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990, p. 174). Commentators have questioned whether Constable was sympathetic to the ‘toilsome’ labour of the workers in the field, or whether he had a more conservative view and simply saw them as part of the scene. Certainly, he portrayed this scene from a high vantage point so that the ploughmen seem to merge into the natural elements, small figures within the landscape (Rosenthal 1983, pp. 71–82). In a letter to John Dunthorne senior of 22 February 1814, Constable wrote aboutthis painting: I have added some ploughmen to the landscape from the park pales which is a great help, but I must try and warm the picture a little more if I can. But it will be difficult as ’tis now all of a piece – it is bleak and looks as if there would be a shower of sleet, and that you know is too much the case with my things(Beckett I, p. 101). Constable based this view over the Stour Valley on drawings in his 1813 sketchbook. He also referred to his sketches of ploughmen in this sketchbook. With the inclusion of the figures of the ploughmen he not only added a point of interest but made the scene an agricultural landscape, celebrating country life. This version of A ploughing scene in Suffolk was used as the basis for the mezzotint A summerland engraved by David Lucas .Constable made a second painting of the subject, A ploughing scene in Suffolk (A summerland) c.1824.

00:00 We're Going to War > 04:50 The Bottom Half 10:40 Push the Pig* 19:46 Syncopated Strangers 31:21 Trenchtown Rock^ (03.21.05 - The Old Hall, Melkweg, Amsterdam, Netherlands) 37:45 Visions of Parin > 43:58 Plunger (03.20.05 - The Max, Melkweg, Amsterdam, Netherlands) 49:56 Ringo^^ (03.22.05 - The Old Hall, Melkweg, Amsterdam, Netherlands) 62:38 Roulette (03.26.05 - The Riviera, Chicago, Illinois) Total Broadcast Length 77:11 Notes: * with Lose Yourself (Eminem) teases ^ with Keller Williams on vocals, woodblock ^^ with Charlie Hitchcock (Particle) on guitar Here is a collection of tunes from Jam in the Dam. The band was loose, relaxed, and very playful. All of the bands were having a blast; you can hear the mutual respect among the artists during the Keller Williams and Charlie Hitchcock sit-ins. To close out this collection of tunes is the Roulette from their triumphant return to The Riviera, a few highlights. You can feel the band and the crowd feeding off each other's energy.