The John Moore Countryside Museum/Birds of Prey
The John Moore Museum is nestled in a row of historic timber-framed buildings close to the Abbey in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.The museum was established in 1980 in memory of the writer and naturalist, John Moore. Today it is also home to an extensive Natural History collection featuring specimens of the mammals and birds native to our countryside, woodlands, wetlands and farmland.( All natural history displays are made up of modern taxidermy specimens and, all furred and feathered guests died of natural causes or from misadventure).
Walsingham Pilgrims - Archery Demonstration
The Walsingham Pilgrims joined us during the Tewkesbury Medieval Festival weekend. This living history group is dedicated to interpreting the domestic and military life of the fourteenth century. Nigel from the group gives us an archery demonstration.
The Jet Age Museum Fun day - Gloucestershire airport
The Jet Age Museum Fun day - Gloucestershire airport
Gloucestershire Aviation Museum - Open weekends 10-4pm
Jet Age Museum is a member of Tewkesbury Museums Partnership, Gloucestershire Museums Group, the British Aviation Preservation Council and the Association of Independent Museums.
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its a great day out... amazing planes! Dont take my word for it go check it out yourself
The Hart Family Burials
Last week the BBC did a news story featuring one of the Baptist Burials I research for the John Moore Museum. This is just a little more information on the family from my last visit. While I research all the burials at the Old Baptist Chapel Tewkesbury this family is known as the Shakespeare Hart family - descendants of William Shakespeare through his sister Joan.
Meadowfort Grange, Winchcombe
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Augustus John (1878 - 1961 ) - Portraits
Flamboyant bohemian artist Augustus Edwin John was born in Tenby, Pembrokeshire in January 1878.
The younger son and third of four children in the John family, Augustus attended the Slade School of Art in London in 1894 (until 1899), and was joined there a year later by his older sister Gwen. The pair shared lodgings during their time at the school.
In 1897 Augustus suffered a serious head injury whilst diving into the sea that affected a change in his character, and critics have argued, resulted in the stimulation of his artistic growth. In 1898 he won the Slade Summer Composition prize with Moses and the Brazen Serpent, and after his graduation from the school he studied in France.
Early in 1900 Augustus married Ida Nettleship and they had five children together. Ida died tragically young aged just 30 in 1907 and he soon after married long time mistress Dorothy 'Dorelia' McNeill.
Augustus enjoyed a bohemian lifestyle, and was deeply influenced by the Romany tradition, lifestyle and language; he spent time travelling with gypsy caravans in Wales, Dorset and Ireland.
Augustus first visited Paris in 1900, and began exhibiting at the New English Art Club in the same year. He became a member of the NEAC in 1903 and staged his first one-man exhibition at the Carfax Gallery that year. Augustus was also an art instructor at the art school affiliated to the University College at the turn of the century.
In August 1911, John, Dorelia and children moved to Alderney Manor in Dorset and turned it into a bohemian commune, in which guests would stay in gypsy caravans parked in the grounds for often lengthy periods. Augustus continued in this promiscuous lifestyle, entertaining numerous affairs and expanding his celebrity circle of friends.
In 1911 he also stayed near the Arenig mountain range in southern Snowdonia with his friend and fellow artist JD Innes.
At the outbreak of World War One Augustus, by now a well-known British artist, gained a commission in the Canadian Army as a war artist with the help of his friend Lord Beaverbrook. However, the latter had to intervene as after spending two months in France the artist was involved in a brawl with a fellow officer and sent home in disgrace.
Though well known and celebrated in the earlier part of his career for his brilliant figure drawings and oil sketching, by the 1920s Augustus was the leading society portrait artist in Britain. Noteworthy figures such as Thomas Hardy, George Bernard Shaw, T E Lawrence, James Joyce, Dylan Thomas, W B Yeats, David Lloyd George, Ramsay MacDonald and Winston Churchill all had their portraits painted by John.
Augustus had become one of the most famous British artists of the day, his talent compared to Michelangelo, Gauguin and Matisse.
In 1927 the John clan moved to Fryern Court, Fordingbridge, which became a kind of open house for travelling artists. In his later life and as his artistic career entered its twilight phase, Augustus became increasingly interested in politics, supporting the National Campaign for the Abolition of Capital Punishment and pushing government officials on the topic of travellers' rights.
Later, John helped to form the Artists International Association in response to the growth of fascism across Europe. And in wartime, along with the likes of Benjamin Britten, E. M. Forster and George Orwell, sponsored the Freedom Defence Committee. Augustus received the Order of Merit in June 1942.
Augustus John lived out the last years of his life with Dorelia in Dorset, having travelled widely in his lifetime in Europe, America and Jamaica. The King of Bohemia died in 1961 at the age of 83.
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Tewkesbury
Tewkesbury is a town and civil parish in Gloucestershire, England. It stands at the confluence of the River Severn and the River Avon, and also minor tributaries the Swilgate and Carrant Brook. It gives its name to the Borough of Tewkesbury, of which the town is the second largest settlement.
The name Tewkesbury comes from Theoc, the name of a Saxon who founded a hermitage there in the 7th century, and in the Old English tongue was called Theocsbury. An erroneous derivation from Theotokos enjoyed currency in the monastic period of the town's history.
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Interviews From The Jerusalem Chamber - Official Trailer
The Palestine Exploration Fund was founded in 1865. It is the oldest organisation in the world that is dedicated to the scientific study of the geographical region of Palestine. Its founding meetings were held in the Jerusalem Chamber in Westminster Abbey. 150 years later, the staff of the PEF have returned to the Jerusalem Chamber to discuss the origins of this organisation.
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Produced by Adam John Fraser, Dane Robertson & Leigh Mullens
Video Editing & Motion Graphics by Dane Robertson
Audio clips taken from Interviews with Felicity Cobbing & Rupert Chapman III
The Palestine Exploration Fund would like to sincerely thank the Dean of Westminster Abbey, The Very Reverend Dr. John Hall, for allowing the organisation to film inside the Jerusalem Chamber
© 2015 Palestine Exploration Fund
Hailes Abbey Winchcombe
a week in Winchcombe 6th June 2014
Yarn Bombs in Winchcombe
Stories from Winchcombe inclunding Yarn Bombs, The Big Knit, and a walking play
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Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. He was also a councillor to Henry VIII, and Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to 16 May 1532. He wrote Utopia, published in 1516, about the political system of an imaginary, ideal island nation.
More opposed the Protestant Reformation, in particular the theology of Martin Luther and William Tyndale. More also opposed the king's separation from the Catholic Church, refusing to acknowledge Henry as Supreme Head of the Church of England and the annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. After refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy, he was convicted of treason and beheaded. Of his execution, he was reported to have said: I die the King's good servant, but God's first.
Pope Pius XI canonised More in 1935 as a martyr. Pope John Paul II in 2000 declared him the heavenly Patron of Statesmen and Politicians. Since 1980, the Church of England has remembered More liturgically as a Reformation martyr. The Soviet Union honoured him for the purportedly communist attitude toward property rights expressed in Utopia.