"Are ghosts haunting the British Museum?” So asks a recent essay from the Economist’s 1843 magazine. “Inexplicable noises, spectral sightings, sudden drops in temperature something strange is going on at the British Museum. As the clamour over colonial restitution grows, Killian Fox investigates the collection’s restless objects.”
The Camden Public Library announces its calendar of events for June 2021.
Tuesday, June 1, 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM. Chat with Miss Amy on Zoom. Every Tuesday, parents and children are invited to catch up with children’s librarian Miss Amy in a social chat on Zoom. Email alhand@librarycamden.org for a link to attend.
Tuesday, June 1, 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM. Yoga in the Amphitheatre. Every Tuesday and Friday enjoy views of Camden Harbor while being guided through a sequence of yoga poses with certified instructor Denyse Robinson. All levels welcome. Donations accepted with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the Camden Public Library.
FEW people in Yorkshire have ever heard of John Phillips (1800-1874) yet he was one of the most notable scientific figures of the 19th century, a brilliant polymath, one of the first great interpreters of the Yorkshire landscape, especially of the Yorkshire Dales and Yorkshire coast. He first came to Yorkshire as a penniless 19-year old with his uncle, the great pioneering geologist, William Smith (1769-1839), producer of the first geological map of England and Wales. Smith had been made bankrupt and thrust into debtors’ prison unable to pay his debts. His nephew rescued him, and the great geologist and his apprentice travelled up to Yorkshire to seek work in estate surveying and map making.
Robert Owen nearly didn t make it to adulthood. In the late 18th century the youngster almost died when he ate a spoonful of scalding hot flummery, and on another occasion was forced to flee from the path of an oncoming wagon pulled by a cream coloured mare as he crossed the wooden bridge over the Severn in Newtown. During an age in which young people were seemingly perennially imperilled, either incident might have deprived the world of a social reformer, one of the architects of the cooperative movement, of an engineer of workers rights and a socialist figurehead. This Friday, May 14, marks 250 years to the day that Owen was born in the house above his father s shop in Broad Street in Newtown in 1771.