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  • Westminster Palace: Analysis of the 1844 Trial of Strafford Painting (Part 2)

    Westminster Palace: Analysis of the 1844 Trial of Strafford Painting (Part 2)

    In the Part I article of the “Trial of Strafford” analysis I presented at Westminster this Spring, I provided an overview introducing the historical analysis I did and the groups depicted in that historic painting.  In this and the next article, we’re going to explore the depth of the stories painter Thomas Woolnoth laid onto that sprawling canvas in the early 1840’s.

    In our time, Woolnoth would have been the videographer behind a BBC historical docu-drama of this pivotal event in English history. But in the early 1840’s even the earliest deguerrotype camera was a technical oddity, leaving Woolnoth only the brush and palette to carry his audience back to the floor of Westminster Hall in the spring of 1641.
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  • Heading Back to the UK! – April 2018

    Heading Back to the UK! – April 2018

    One year ago, it seemed high time to get serious about this quest. And I did.

    Publishing my research seemed the best way to provide the accountability to ensure I got the history right. And, since some things can only be done (or understood) in person, I decided I had to make a trip to London and Jersey a priority.  That trip (last May) was not only fascinating and rewarding, it threw gasoline on the fire of this project. And in the year since?  Somehow it seems in the nature of research that answering one question raises several new ones, so a year later my list of “in person” tasks is now even longer and more pressing than last year’s.

    My bucket list of other travel destinations will have to wait for some other year.  The UK is calling, and I must go!

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