In 1980, the Clarendon Press published the first volume of a projected multi-volume biography of the Duc de Choiseul, Louis XV’s foreign minister who is often blamed for France’s catastrophic defeats in the Seven Years’ War, and therefore for a major share of the governmental failures of the Ancien Régime which precipitated the FrenchContinue reading “How not to write a biography – a cautionary tale”
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What’s right with Project Spire?
In April 2024 I took part in the assembly of the Global Christian Forum (GCF) in Accra, in Ghana. For those who don’t know anything about the GCF, it is a body which was originally sponsored by the World Council of Churches (WCC) as a way of inviting churches and Christian movements which couldContinue reading “What’s right with Project Spire?”
Revisiting Anglican Classics 10: Rose Macaulay’s The Towers of Trebizond
Rose Macaulay’s Towers of Trebizond (1956) is generally regarded as her masterpiece, and almost certainly it is the most commonly read of her novels today. It is also a sort of running tribute to Anglo-Catholicism, saturated with asides, often hilarious, about Anglo-Catholics and their peculiar habits and attitudes, and at the same time quietly appreciativeContinue reading “Revisiting Anglican Classics 10: Rose Macaulay’s The Towers of Trebizond”
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