The glass plaque on Stonegate honours 18th Century writer and clergyman Laurence Sterne.

Shandy Hall, historic house and garden, former home of eighteeenth century writer, Laurence Sterne.

Exhibition of bird pictures by Wildlife Artist Carry Akroyd at Shandy Hall.

In today's cozy reading blog, we're off to a literary house & garden in Yorkshire, enjoying an art exhibition, chatting about my current reads & baking a birthday cake! — SUBSCRIBE: If you enjoy this video, please consider subscribing to my youtube channel. I'd be thrilled! https://www.youtube.com/mirandamills JOIN MY 'SEASONS OF STORY' COMMUNITY. Get access to exclusive content, the Seasons of Classics quarterly book club and virtual meet-ups : https://seasonsofstory.substack.com/ THE COMFORT BOOK CLUB: I host the Comfort Book Club with my Mum, Donna. Learn more about #TheComfortBookClub (and find the list of upcoming reads) here: https://mirandasnotebook.com/the-comfort-book-club SUPPORT: No pressure at all, but if you would like to support my work by making a donation to my channel, you can do so by clicking the 'Thanks' heart sign, just under the title of this video (in the same bar where you find the 'like' button) — LINKS: (affiliate links used for Blackwells) My general Blackwells link is: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/home?a_aid=mirandamills Seasons of Story: https://seasonsofstory.substack.com/ Derbyshire video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7xs1Kh1fSI Chocolate Biscuit Birthday Cake recipe: https://seasonsofstory.substack.com/p/chocolate-biscuit-birthday-cake Shandy Hall: https://www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk/ Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Life-and-Opinions-of-Tristram-Shandy-Gentleman-by-Laurence-Sterne/9780241552667?a_aid=mirandamills Carry Akroyd: https://carryakroyd.co.uk/ Have His Carcase by Dorothy L Sayers: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Have-His-Carcase-by-Dorothy-L-Sayers/9781473621367?a_aid=mirandamills This Happy Spirit by John Clare: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/This-Happy-Spirit-by-John-Clare-author-R-K-R-Thornton-editor-Carry-Akroyd-editor-John-Clare-Society-Peterborough-England-publisher/9780956411334?a_aid=mirandamills The Wood is Sweet by John Clare: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Wood-is-Sweet-by-Clare-John/9780953899555?a_aid=mirandamills Mistress Masham's Repose by T H White: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Mistress-Mashams-Repose-by-T-H-White/9780099595175?a_aid=mirandamills Bookmarks: https://www.etsy.com/shop/bluebellartsshop/?etsrc=sdt Dress 1 is Seasalt: https://www.seasaltcornwall.com/top-terrace-cotton-voile-floral-dress Dress 2 is Seasalt: https://www.seasaltcornwall.com/true-letter-long-sleeve-shirt-dress Dress 3 is (very!) old Cabbages & Roses Dress 4 is old Seasalt — MUSIC: All music in my videos is from either Epidemic Sound or Artlist; I subscribe to both.

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Laurence Sterne, vicar of Coxwold, celebrity author of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, met, at a London gathering, Eliza Draper, who was visiting England from her home in India. Eliza was 23 and had married – at the age of 14 – Daniel Draper, an East India Company employee, a man 30 years her senior. It was an arranged marriage and they were not well-matched.

FROM THE AUTHOR LAURENCE STERNE Readings performed by Patrick Wildgust, Curator at the Laurence Sterne Trust Filmed on Location at Shandy Hall, Coxwold, North Yorkshire A film by HISTORYWORKS LTD Website: http://historyworks.tv Twittter: @historyworkstv HISTORYWORKS FILM CREDITS: Camera & Edit, Ross Casswell Sound, Jon Calver Producer & Director, Helen Weinstein

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A beautiful glass fig with a gilded snail. Cast from an original fig foraged in the orchard at Shandy Hall (home of Laurence Sterne). The snail shell was collected from the wind swept sand dunes in the far north of Scotland, this has become a series and each piece has a different snail shell.

York Handmade Brick Company has been praised for its “ability, sensitivity and skill” in working on key heritage projects in Yorkshire.

90 poets from across the world reflect on a this marker of a time before the 24-hour news cycle, before the ubiquity of news and information that seems to haunt us through our daily lives. Through this anthology there are poems that capture that moment of nothing but piano music making up an evening news bulletin, poems that contrast this with today's news, and personal stories grounded in the intervening years.

NEW ISSUE in GREEN CARD A new issue of the bestselling myriorama by Tom Gauld inspired by the works of Laurence Sterne. Twelve picture cards which can be arranged to form 479,001,600 different landscapes. Myriorama, or 'Many Thousand Views' consist of numerous cards depicting fragments or segments of landscapes that can be arranged in a multitude of different combinations. This 'entertainment' for young ladies and gentlemen originated in France. The first English version in 1824 was a set of 16 cards which depicted Gothic ruins, castles, cottages, a lighthouse, a man fishing and a gypsy encampment. These landmarks had a backdrop of mountains with islands and a lake to add extra texture and depth. Whenever the cards were taken out and arranged upon a table, they produced a landscape of harmony which was variable, compatible and satisfying to the user without being geographically identifiable. This first myriorama seems to have been an instant success and many varieties were created to satisfy the demands of the public. The newly commissioned contemporary myriorama by Tom Gauld has many references to Laurence Sterne's writings and contains incidents and characters that may be familiar to the reader. He has ordered his drawings to allow an almost limitless variety of Sternean encounters to take place. What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything, and who, having eyes to see what time and chance are perpetually holding out to him as he journeyeth on his way, misses nothing he can fairly lay his hands on. from 'A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy' by Laurence Sterne New issue in green card Myriorama cards - 16cm x 7cm ALL PRICES INCLUDE POSTAGE AND PACKING WITHIN THE UK. If you like this item you may enjoy our page with information and pictures from the exhibition Sentimental landscapes - Myriorama (2015) at Shandy Hall, for which this work was commissioned.

Shostakovich’s surreal and brilliant first opera tells the story of a man who wakes one morning to find that his nose has gone missing Find out more at http://www.roh.org.uk/thenose Shostakovich was only 20 when he began writing The Nose, his operatic debut. He turned to a tiny short story by Gogol: an absurdist satire, where a civil servant’s errant nose launches its owner on a ludicrous battle against both nose and the authorities, as bureaucratic processes break down in the face of so unusual a problem. Gogol’s surrealist fable fired Shostakovich’s imagination, and he responded with a work of exuberant energy, full of musical jokes and grotesque parody – from the famed Act I entr’acte for percussion ensemble to plaintive laments, careening counterpoint, folksong (accompanied by balalaika) and rambunctious polkas. Shostakovich finished the work in about a year, and in the following months gave successful performances of extracts from the opera. But it was to be another two years, in 1930, before The Nose was staged in full, by which time Soviet cultural climate had turned sternly against works of such perceived frivolity. The opera was quickly dropped from the repertory; but since its rediscovery in the 1960s it has steadily gained recognition for Shostakovich’s baffling, brilliant wit. This new production is The Royal Opera’s first. Artistic Director of Berlin’s Komische Oper Barrie Kosky directs, fresh from his triumphant production of Saul for Glyndebourne Festival. The Nose is performed in English, in a new translation by David Pountney.

York Civic Trust, in partnership with the Laurence Sterne Trust, has today unveiled a blue plaque of a different sort – made of stained glass. The unusual addition to the Trust’s plaque programme was created by renowned stained glass makers, Barley Studios and was commissioned to celebrate the York site where the first volumes of Sterne’s […]

Es gibt ein Rätsel, das so schwer ist, dass es nur vier Menschen auf der Welt gelöst haben. 1934 veröffentlichte der britische Rätselmeister Torquemada den Kriminalroman „Kains Knochen”. Der Clou: Alle 100 Seiten sind in zufälliger Reihenfolge abgedruckt. Das Rätsel ist gelöst, wenn man es schafft, alle sechs Opfer ihren sechs Mördern zuzuordnen. Was fasziniert uns an Rätseln wie Kains Knochen so sehr? #kainsknochen #rätsel #arte Video auf Youtube verfügbar bis zum 07/08/2028 Abonniert unseren YouTube Kulturkanal: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsygZtQQSplGF6JA3XWvsdg Abonniert unseren YouTube Hauptkanal (Dokus und Reportagen): https://www.youtube.com/user/ARTEde Folgt uns in den sozialen Netzwerken: Facebook: https://de-de.facebook.com/artede/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arte.tv/?hl=de

A Shandy Hall Exhibition | 20 May - 31 August 2023. Click on the images to bid.

The commission is the first of three works by the artist to be unveiled in the capital this year

Nick Hornby is one of Britain’s leading sculptors of his generation, and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors at the age of 34. In this episode, he talks about meeting Ni…

A Shandy Hall Exhibition | 20 May - 31 August 2023. Click on the images to bid.

John Mitchinson explores what the novelist behind a 1759 masterpiece can teach us about the importance of marketing as a publisher

A Shandy Hall Exhibition | 20 May - 31 August 2023. Click on the images to bid.

Moving retelling of Sancho’s life by actor Paterson Joseph awarded prestigious Christopher Bland prize

In lockdown, the Observer’s classical music critic began work on a book about the Russian composer’s later years. Then war, and events in her own life, began to reshape the narrative

"I Wish . . . " exhibition and auction, Shandy Hall. Artists and writers present their own wish using the first two words from Tristram Shandy.

Thanks to a group of devoted folks on TikTok, a murder mystery from 1934 is enjoying a viral level of interest in the 21st century. “Cain’s Jawbone” by Edward Powys Mathers challenges readers to solve a literary puzzle – a feat only four people have managed to do in nearly 90 years.

The fiendish mystery set by Observer crossword compiler Torquemada in the 1930s has only been cracked by four people to date. Can machines do better?

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, vol VI, p. 147 Laurence Sterne’s experimental approach to narrative is attractive to both writers and artists – he uses images and ‘devices’ t…

The artist who effortlessly crossed genres, but stayed close to south London, was best known for ‘A Humument’, a masterpiece 50 years in the making

In 2009 The Black Page exhibition at Shandy Hall celebrated the 250th anniversary of Vols I & II of Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne (2009). Page 73 of Volume I is a Black Page which marks the death of Parson Yorick.

Tristram Shandy is a book that defies classification. One of the greatest works of imagination in English literature, this hilarious fictional autobiography of a hapless anti-hero tore up the rules of novel-writing when the novel had scarcely been invented. The Folio Society’s unique limited edition has been designed, illustrated and signed by an equally extraordinary artist — Tom Phillips RA. Rising to the challenge presented by such an experimental work, Phillips has packed his instantly-recognisable collages with verbal and visual puns, to form the perfect pictorial counterpart to Laurence Sterne’s comic masterpiece. He has also signed each edition in this 750 limitation. The main volume presents the full text of Tristram Shandy, as established by Melvyn and Joan New in their authoritative Florida Edition of The Works of Laurence Sterne. To allow for easy cross-referencing, a separate commentary volume contains the indispensable introduction and notes by Melvyn New, a carefully updated bibliography and an invaluable glossary of technical terms for military fortifications. The Folio Society produces beautifully crafted collector’s editions of the world’s greatest books, each with unique illustrations or specially researched photographs throughout. Find books you love at foliosociety.com View this edition: www.foliosociety.com

A Tom Phillips Exhibition at Shandy Hall

…any one is welcome to take my pen, and go on with the story for me that will…

Sculpture and design work in the public realm and to private commission. Working in stone, marble slate, timber, cast metals and other media

Penny Boxall seeks inspiration at Laurence Sterne’s Shandy Hall, and Jonathan Edwards introduces the poet WH Davies. Penny Boxall seeks inspiration at Laurence Sterne’s Shandy Hall, wondering how to move forward as a writer after the loss of her mother and her previous creative rituals. Jonathan Edwards considers the poet WH Davies, whose extensive body of work forms a bridge between two worlds - the natural beauty of South Wales, and the gritty reality of early 20th century London and its poverty.

Penny Boxall considers literary forgeries and explores some famous counterfeits. Penny Boxall considers literary forgeries and the nature of copying published works, asking whether such counterfeits can ever be considered literature in their own right.

Martin Rowson talks about his work as a cartoonist, and about his graphic novel version of T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land"

The former nun argues that reconnecting with the spiritual side of nature could help us contend with the climate crisis

A preview of Saturday's books pages and a round-up of the latest literary news

2021, 50cm x 50cm Archival Glicee print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag, Edition 10 What a wilderness it has been! Print by Carolyn Thompson. A pictorial survey of all the flowers in the Wild Garden at Shandy Hall during June and July 2021. Referencing vintage botanical drawings found on the internet, line drawings of each of the flowers recorded have been created and layered on top of one another to create a garland, through which each flower can be seen in full. Coloured dots depicting the hues of the flowers adorn the petals.

The author of Rethinking Thinking: Problem Solving from Sun Tzu to Google asks questions