Huguenot Museum NEW
A great little feature from BBC South East news including work we carried out in conjunction with hotrodcreations.com at the brand new at Rochester in Kent earlier this year. The Huguenot Museum is the first and only museum of Huguenot history in Britain. It tells an important story of Britain’s first refugees, the crafts, trades and skills they brought with them and the impact their contribution has had on the development of our country.
Places to see in ( Rochester - UK )
Places to see in ( Rochester - UK )
Rochester is a town and historic city in the unitary authority of Medway in Kent, England. Rochester is at the lowest bridging point of the River Medway about 30 miles from London.
Rochester was for many years a favourite of Charles Dickens, who owned nearby Gads Hill Place, Higham, basing many of his novels on the area. The Diocese of Rochester, the second oldest in England, is centred on Rochester Cathedral and was responsible for the founding of a school, now The King's School in 604 AD, which is recognised as being the second oldest continuously running school in the world.
Rochester Castle, built by Bishop Gundulf of Rochester, has one of the best preserved keeps in either England or France, and during the First Barons' War (1215–1217) in King John's reign, baronial forces captured the castle from Archbishop Stephen Langton and held it against the king, who then besieged it.
Rochester and its neighbours, Chatham and Gillingham, Strood and a number of outlying villages form a single large urban area known as the Medway Towns. These places nowadays make up the Medway Unitary Authority area. It was, until 1998, under the control of Kent County Council and is still part of the ceremonial county of Kent, under the latest Lieutenancies Act.
Rochester lies within the area, known to geologists, as the London Basin. The low-lying Hoo peninsula to the north of the town consists of London Clay, and the alluvium brought down by the two rivers—the Thames and the Medway—whose confluence is in this area. The land rises from the river, and being on the dip slope of the North Downs, this consists of chalk surmounted by the Blackheath Beds of sand and gravel.
Rochester comprises numerous important historic buildings, the most prominent of which are the Guildhall, the Corn Exchange, Restoration House, Eastgate House, as well as Rochester Castle and Rochester Cathedral. Many of the town centre's old buildings date from as early as the 14th century up to the 18th century. The chapel of St Bartholomew's Hospital dates from the ancient priory hospital's foundation in 1078.
A new Huguenot Museum, which includes items from the collections of the French Hospital, was opened in Rochester on 13 May 2015, with support from the Heritage Lottery Fund and individual donations. Since 1980 the city has seen the revival of the historic Rochester Jack-in-the-Green May Day dancing chimney sweeps tradition, which had died out in the early 1900s.
Rochester is on the A2, which crosses the Medway at Rochester Bridge – the route roughly follows the ancient road known as Watling Street. Rochester railway station is on the Chatham Main Line and the North Kent Line. Rochester Airport began in September 1933 when Rochester City Council purchased some land as the site for a municipal airport.
( Rochester - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting the city of Rochester . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Rochester - UK
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Welcome to the Huguenot Museum
Welcome to the You Tube channel for the Huguenot Museum, England. See our progress so far of our new museum which is being built with the help of the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Rochester Sweeps Festival 2016
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Executions, butchery & medicine at Smithfield with Richard Barnett | Medical London
Richard Barnett explains the history of Smithfield - a meat market, a place of numerous public executions and St Bartholomew's hospital.
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BEAVER HOUSE
Beaver House in the City of London was the London Headquarters of the Hudsons Bay Company. It was surrounded by warehouses and trading companies on Garlick Hill. The fur trade had a presence here from about 1300 or so until the early 1990s.
Mini Concertina Journal (50mm x 56mm) Hand Made
There are several objectives that I needed to achieve with this project:
1. I wanted to used a journal format to tell the story of a sailing voyage and to tell this story as a continuous week long trip, through the changing weather and conditions experienced at sea.
2. I wanted to illustrate and write this journal using only one fountain pen ink. Taking inspiration from the Victorian travellers who kept beautiful journals this ALL had to be from one pure medium! No mixed media. I also wanted to demo how effective fountain ink can be for illustration utilising the chromatography.
3. I wanted to make this journal myself using papers that I have in the studio and I know that work! In this case Bockingford 140lb rough. I used Randall Blue Black fountain pen ink (available from my website shop) with KUM brushes and a Kaweco AC Sport with an EF nib.
The concertina format seemed to me to be the most appropriate but in order to keep the art processes fast and fresh I reduced the size to 50mm x 56mm so that there wasn't room to labour with over detailing. Personally, I think it's worked thank goodness, but I'd love to read your thoughts in the comments section below. Thanks for watching and reading.
Of note: I have been asked to run a fountain pen ink illustration workshop at the Huguenot Museum in Rochester, Kent, England on Saturday 28th September 2019. For anyone who is planning to do the INKTOBER challenge this year and can get to the workshop, I will be offering top tips on how to maximise your ink skills. Loads of inks to try! For further info please email Hannah Birkett: learning@huguenotmuseum.org
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Competitor: David Baskeyfield
David Baskeyfield has won numerous prizes. In summer 2011, he won First Prize and Audience Prize at the St-Albans international organ Competition in England and Second Prize at the Dublin International Organ Competition. In 2010, he won First Prize and Audience Prize at the Miami International Organ Competition; First Prize at the Mader organ competition in Los Angeles; and First Prize and Audience Prize at the AGO National Competition in Organ Improvisation. Active as an accompanist, continuo player and occasional cocktail pianist, he also enjoys access to the large Wurlitzer organ in Rochester's Auditorium Theatre and has gone some way to legitimising his private indulgence in being elected to the Board of the Rochester Theatre Organ Society.
Lucy Stone | Wikipedia audio article
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Lucy Stone
00:02:05 1 Early life and influences
00:04:27 1.1 Teaching at a woman's pay
00:05:27 1.2 The woman question
00:08:51 2 Oberlin
00:09:42 2.1 Equal pay strike
00:11:25 2.2 Public speaking
00:14:05 3 Antislavery apprenticeship
00:16:51 4 National Woman's Rights Convention
00:19:33 5 Woman's rights orator
00:20:48 5.1 Dress reform
00:24:04 5.2 Expulsion from church
00:25:07 5.3 Issues of divorce
00:26:36 5.4 Differences with Douglass
00:27:17 5.5 Western tour
00:29:13 6 Petitioning and hearings
00:29:41 6.1 Massachusetts
00:30:47 6.2 Multi-state campaigns
00:34:42 6.3 Tax protest
00:35:48 7 Marriage
00:39:15 7.1 Keeping her name
00:40:55 7.2 Children
00:41:24 8 Waning activism
00:45:27 9 National organizations
00:45:37 9.1 American Equal Rights Association
00:47:31 9.2 Split within the women's movement
00:51:16 9.3 Divorce and free love
00:53:51 10 Voting rights
00:54:25 10.1 New England Woman Suffrage Association
00:55:00 10.2 iWoman's Journal/i
00:56:23 10.3 The Colorado Lesson
00:57:38 10.4 School board vote
00:58:11 11 Reconciliation
01:00:49 12 Final appearance
01:03:48 13 Legacy
01:06:31 14 Home
01:08:08 15 See also
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- Socrates
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Lucy Stone (August 13, 1818 – October 18, 1893) was a prominent U.S. orator, abolitionist, and suffragist, and a vocal advocate and organizer promoting rights for women. In 1847, Stone became the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree. She spoke out for women's rights and against slavery at a time when women were discouraged and prevented from public speaking. Stone was known for using her birth name after marriage, the custom being for women to take their husband's surname.
Stone's organizational activities for the cause of women's rights yielded tangible gains in the difficult political environment of the 19th century. Stone helped initiate the first National Women's Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts and she supported and sustained it annually, along with a number of other local, state and regional activist conventions. Stone spoke in front of a number of legislative bodies to promote laws giving more rights to women. She assisted in establishing the Woman's National Loyal League to help pass the Thirteenth Amendment and thereby abolish slavery, after which she helped form the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), which built support for a woman suffrage Constitutional amendment by winning woman suffrage at the state and local levels.
Stone wrote extensively about a wide range of women's rights, publishing and distributing speeches by herself and others, and convention proceedings. In the long-running and influential Woman's Journal, a weekly periodical that she founded and promoted, Stone aired both her own and differing views about women's rights. Called the orator, the morning star and the heart and soul of the women's rights movement, Stone influenced Susan B. Anthony to take up the cause of women's suffrage. Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote that Lucy Stone was the first person by whom the heart of the American public was deeply stirred on the woman question. Together, Anthony, Stanton, and Stone have been called the 19th-century triumvirate of women's suffrage and feminism.
St. Augustine, Florida | Wikipedia audio article
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St. Augustine, Florida
00:01:52 1 History
00:02:00 1.1 Founding by Pedro Menéndez de Avilés
00:05:53 1.2 Invasions by pirates and enemies of Spain
00:08:46 1.3 Loyalist haven under British rule
00:09:46 1.4 Second Spanish period
00:10:43 1.5 Territory of Florida
00:11:32 1.6 Civil War
00:12:04 1.7 Henry Flagler and the railroad
00:13:59 1.8 Civil Rights movement
00:16:27 1.9 Modern St. Augustine
00:17:33 2 Geography and climate
00:20:37 3 Demographics
00:23:29 4 Transportation
00:23:38 4.1 Highways
00:24:07 4.2 Buses
00:24:30 4.3 Airport
00:25:11 5 Points of interest
00:25:20 5.1 First and second Spanish eras
00:26:08 5.2 British era
00:26:19 5.3 Pre-Flagler era
00:26:33 5.4 Flagler era
00:27:06 5.5 Historic churches
00:27:27 5.6 Lincolnville National Historic District – Civil Rights era
00:27:41 5.7 Other points of interest
00:28:03 6 Sister cities
00:28:26 7 Education
00:30:21 8 Notable people
00:33:26 9 Gallery
00:33:34 10 See also
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
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St. Augustine (Spanish: San Agustín) is a city in the Southeastern United States, on the Atlantic coast of northeastern Florida. Founded in 1565 by Spanish explorers, it is the oldest continuously inhabited European-established settlement within the borders of the continental United States.The county seat of St. Johns County, St. Augustine is part of Florida's First Coast region and the Jacksonville metropolitan area. According to the 2010 census, the city's population was 12,975. The United States Census Bureau's 2013 estimate of the city's population was 13,679, while the urban area had a population of 71,379 in 2012.St. Augustine was founded on September 8, 1565, by Spanish admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Florida's first governor. He named the settlement San Agustín, as his ships bearing settlers, troops, and supplies from Spain had first sighted land in Florida eleven days earlier on August 28, the feast day of St. Augustine. The city served as the capital of Spanish Florida for over 200 years. It was designated as the capital of British East Florida when the colony was established in 1763 until it was ceded to Spain in 1783.
Spain ceded Florida to the United States in 1819, and St. Augustine was designated the capital of the Florida Territory upon ratification of the Adams–Onís Treaty in 1821. The Florida National Guard made the city its headquarters that same year. The territorial government moved and made Tallahassee the capital in 1824. Since the late 19th century, St. Augustine's distinct historical character has made the city a major tourist attraction.