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Squiz UK: Blog (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
The Online Information exhibition has just drawn to a close in London. Imogen Levy from Westminster Abbey presented a case study on their recent website redevelopment project using MySource Matrix...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
As a Poet Laureate, advocate for children’s poetry and a lyricist who evoked the natural world, Ted Hughes has long been recognised as one of the great poets of his time. Now a campaign has been mounted to have him immortalised among the country’s greatest writers in Westminster Abbey.
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emergeandbe (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
I read a captivating memoir of ministry in Hackney (one of London's poorest boroughs) over the weekend. http://www.amazon.co.uk/In ner-city-God-Diary-East-Pa rson/dp/1853118826 It is an honest, funny, human book about what you can achieve even with very little faith. Then on Monday went to a meeting in the one of the 'airless rooms' in Church House Westminster, to review ministry educational...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Leading stained-glass artist whose work was in demand all over the world John Lawson, who has died of cancer aged 77, was one of the leading stained-glass artists of his generation. He designed glorious windows not only in Westminster Abbey and many other British cathedrals and churches, but also in mosques, palaces and hotels as far afield as Dubai, Oman and Brunei. For the last three...
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Postcard Mania (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... as the Salvation Army were featured, as were pictures of Popes and views of Lourdes. Churches and abbeys, cathedrals and synagogues were pictured and found their way onto postcards. Bamforth's produced a series of Hymn cards, with sentimental pictures plus the words and score of hymns. Rock of Ages , The Old Rugged Cross and Nearer my God to Thee were three very popular examples in this...
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Greening St. Johns (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
... were certainly at least 24 of us from St John's! Some arrived early enough for the service in Westminster Central Hall. The key phrase one of them reported from the service was that God told us to preach good news to all the world - not merely all people, but the cosmos. By the time our family turned up there was a capacity 3,000 people inside and still an optimistic queue, but we headed...
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DaithaiC (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... night which was anointed with impressive torrential rain we proceeded across the yard behind Westminster Abbey to Church House, Westminster, to the Synod Hall of the Church of England for the 8th annual “Longford Lecture” organised by the Longford Trust and sponsored by the excellent Independent Newspaper which is owned by Tony O’Reilly’s Independent...
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An Englishman's Castle (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Ted Hughes was a prophet of climate change | Ben Macintyre - Times Online A campaign is under way to have Hughes roost among his peers in Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey. He deserves to be there, not just...
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Keighley and Ilkley Liberal Democrat Website (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
There's a move afoot by people including Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney, Melvyn Bragg, and Andrew Motion, to have Ted Hughes immortalised in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. Two years back, when Mayor of Hebden Royd, I unveiled a plaque at Lumb Falls to remember a poem written by Ted inspired by a photograph of six young men taken at the falls early last century. All six men were killed...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
UNITED FOR decades with Ted Hughes in friendship, Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney is backing discreet efforts to win a place for Hughes in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner - poetry's holiest of holies.
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Stick Poet Super Hero (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Ted Hughes has been dead about eleven years now and legacy as a poet is again in public view as some have taken up the cause of him being honored by inclusion in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner - poetry's holiest of holies. Those enshrined there include Chaucer, William Shakespeare, TS Eliot, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, William Blake and Sir John Betjeman the last admitted...
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