Worship: A Book by the Endlessly Quotable Evelyn Underhill
Yesterday the Erewash Press published Percy Dearmer’s Parson’s Handbook, as I mentioned in a blog piece, and we also brought …
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The Parson’s Handbook by Percy Dearmer: A Classic of Victorian Anglicanism
Today the Erewash Press published a book I’m very proud of: our affordable Kindle edition of The Parson’s Handbook by …
Epithalamion – A Wedding Poem
This is a bit of an unusual post for me – looking through some old writing I found a poem, …
“the impression of a good shepherd”: George Herbert’s “The Country Parson”
As part of the training I’m undertaking at the moment, I had to write a brief review of a piece …
“rising nightly among the metropolitans”: The Fun and Fascination of Victorian Theatre Adverts
This week I’ve been redrafting a chapter from my book about Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, and remembering why Victorian …
Anthropocene Park: an interview with Nigel Timms
Nigel Timms is an author and teacher, whose most recent novel is entitled Anthropocene Park. He was kind enough to …
The Politics of Packing: Suitcases, Sexism and Gender Roles
The time for spring vacations is here, which means a series of different things in my online and offline circles: …
“the civility of my knee, my hat and hand”: Thomas Browne’s “Religio Medici”
Thomas Browne, the seventeenth-century doctor and speculative thinker, is one of the authors I’ve only begun to read in the …
Linguistic policing, lost marks and learning outcomes: controversy on the British university campus
An article appeared in The Guardian today suggesting that students in British universities are being subjected to linguistic policing, and threatened …
Clerks, Clerics and Tricksters: A Word and its Literary History
This weekend the Erewash Press published Anthony Trollope’s novel The Three Clerks. It’s a great read, partly because of the …
