Each year, round about Easter, the Dulwich Wine Society goes on a vineyard trip. 2010 saw them in the Touraine. Greville Havenhand helped organise it. The Touraine is one of the most underrated wine areas [...]
Triumphs of Temper at Dulwich Picture Gallery
Triumphs of Temper: George Romney’s Serena is a new display at Dulwich Picture Gallery
Serena is the fictitious heroine of William Hayley’s lengthy poem Triumphs of Temper (1780).
Hayley chronicled the trials and tribulations Serena faced and how she overcame them by exercising her virtues of a pleasant nature and unfailing sweet temper. Her reward, in true eighteenth-century sensibilité style, is a good husband and happy marriage. Hayley’s friend, the artist George Romney, painted both author and heroine, and they have recently come together at Dulwich Picture Gallery.
The Old Waiting Room, Peckham Rye Station
The Peckham Society and Southwark Council recently celebrated the beginning of the restoration of the Grand Waiting Room at Peckham Rye Station. Peckham Rye’s handsome Victorian station has been struggling to be seen since buildings [...]
She sits alone as if she has no purpose..
‘She sits alone as if she has no purpose, if the walls could talk they’d probably have nothing to say. She lets out her emotions on that one keyboard, she doesn’t need to look at [...]
Dulwich OnView goes from Denver to Covent Garden!
By Jonathan Bowen After the success of Dulwich OnView winning the “best small museum site” award at the Museums and the Web 2010 conference in Denver during April, Ingrid Beazley and I were stranded in [...]
A Dulwich Date
I distinctly remember the first time I arrived in East Dulwich, it was a dark, cold winter’s evening. A frosty January meant most people were all layered and wrapped up; trundling home they were eager [...]
Conserving John Opie
It was just before Christmas when I first fell in love with John Opie’s self-portrait. Dulwich Picture Gallery was showing a dozen or so paintings that badly needed restoration and asking for people to ‘adopt’ [...]
Children’s Reading Session at Dulwich Park
Children’s Author Loretta D’Souza will be hosting a reading session at Dulwich Park on Thursday 22nd July in front of the cafe on the lawn at 11am. Loretta D’Souza is a recently published children’s author; [...]
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