(Continued from part one)
The disagreement between Rhoades and Moultrie came out of the blue on Christmas morning 1872 when the rector wrote a peremptory note to his curate:
Dear Rhoades, I ...
John Moultrie is probably Rugby’s most gifted and prolific 19th century poet, though now rarely read and to most not even a vaguely remembered name. He was an upholder of ...
Mary Anne Evans1 was born on the 22nd November 1819 at South Farm on the Arbury estate, on the outskirts of Nuneaton, Warwickshire, the third of five children of parents ...
Rupert Brooke’s father William was a teacher at Rugby School who ran his home, 5 Hillmorton Road, as a boarding house for boys from the school. This is where Rupert ...
Nathaniel Hawthorne is one of America’s most celebrated writers, especially famed for The Scarlet Letter of 1850. He stayed in Leamington three times, including Lansdowne Circus in 1857. On his ...
It is hard to think of Nuneaton without it being inextricably entwined with George Eliot. Such is the cultural resonance of the great novelist, that a hospital and school are ...
We found an absorbing new interest for our retirement when we joined Coventry Photographic Society five years ago. When researching the society’s history and updating its society’s website, we discovered ...
Today, Rupert Brooke is possibly best known as a War Poet and is included on the Poets of the First World War memorial in Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey, alongside fellow poets, Wilfred Owen, Edmund ...
Francis Galton was born in Birmingham in 1822, son of Samuel Galton and Frances Darwin, and therefore a cousin of Charles Darwin. The Galton family had made their fortune in ...