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Shandy Hall - home of The Laurence Sterne Trust and former home of Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) vicar of Coxwold and author of Tristram Shandy. Charity, museum, gallery & gardens. laurencesternetrust.org.uk
The epigraph to Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy: ‘It is not things which trouble men, but opinions about things’ (Epictetus)
December 2, 2024 at 2:12 PM
York: World's first stained glass blue plaque unveiled - BBC News -#GoogleAlerts

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York: World’s first stained glass blue plaque unveiled
The glass plaque on Stonegate honours 18th Century writer and clergyman Laurence Sterne.
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December 5, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Last few weeks to visit Shandy Hall and Gardens (last day is 29th September) We still have some lovely plants for sale

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Shandy Hall - The Laurence Sterne Trust
Shandy Hall, historic house and garden, former home of eighteeenth century writer, Laurence Sterne.
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December 5, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Only three more days to see @carryakroyd exhibition at Shandy Hall before work moves on to Chris Beetles Gallery in London. Ends here Sunday 11th August

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“Swoop, Sing, Perch, Paddle” bird pictures and other works by Carry Akroyd - The Laurence Sterne Trust
Exhibition of bird pictures by Wildlife Artist Carry Akroyd at Shandy Hall.
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December 5, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Vlog by Miranda Mills covering Carry Akroyd's exhibition, Shandy Hall, and the Shandy Shop. Thanks Miranda, glad you enjoyed it! #CarryAkroyd #ShandyHall #artexhibition COZY VLOG | Books, Art + No Bake Cake Recipe 🎂 📚via @YouTube

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COZY VLOG | Books, Art + No Bake Cake Recipe 🎂 📚
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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December 5, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Tomorrow - Evening opening at Shandy Hall for the National Garden Scheme - 7th and 21st June 6.30 - 8pm @YorkshireNGS @NGSOpenGardens #gardens #opengardens #plantsforsale #NGS

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Evening opening for the National Gardens Scheme Friday 7th and 21st June 6.30-8pm - The Laurence Sterne Trust
National Gardens Scheme Opening, Shandy Hall
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December 5, 2024 at 6:57 PM
"Are we not here now, and are we not . . . gone! in a moment! #OnThisDay 18th March 1768, Laurence Sterne died at the age of 54. Patrick Wildgust reads Trim's hat from Tristram Shandy

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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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December 5, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Tristram Shandy: In Development - play on Radio 4@BBCRadio4 #TristramShandy #LaurenceSterne

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BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Tristram Shandy: In Development
Comedy by Christopher Douglas, Radio Four's Ed Reardon.
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December 5, 2024 at 6:56 PM
We are grateful to @yorkhmadebrick and @p_conservation for their skills during the repairs to Shandy Hall, funded by @DCMS and @ace_nationalvia @p.ublished

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It’s The Pinnacle Of Perfection For York Handmade
York Handmade Brick Company has been praised for its “ability, sensitivity and skill” in working on key heritage projects in Yorkshire.
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December 5, 2024 at 6:56 PM
90 poets from across the world reflect on . . . a time before the 24-hour news cycle, before the ubiquity of news and information that seems to haunt us through our daily lives. @Paul_Munden #poetry

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No News: 90 Poets Reflect on a Unique BBC Newscast
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.
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December 5, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Ideal postable Xmas present in our shop. 12 cards, nearly 500 million combinations:Try out a reduced version here - drag cards into 720 different combinations:#puzzle #xmaspresent #christmasgifts #laurencesterne

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Endless Journey by Tom Gauld - new green issue
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.
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December 5, 2024 at 6:56 PM
In honour of Laurence Sterne's birthday #OTD 24th Nov 1713 - The giant tap-dancing #noses scene from Shostakovich's The Nose (The Roya...via @YouTube

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The giant tap-dancing noses scene from Shostakovich's The Nose (The Royal Opera)
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.
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December 5, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Happy 310th birthday Laurence Sterne, born #OnThisDay 24 Nov. 1713. The unique glass #blueplaque erected in York 2018 was damaged last year, but good to know on this day that there are plans to replace it @yorkcivictrust #OTD

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Stained Glass Plaque for Laurence Sterne - York Civic Trust
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 […]
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December 5, 2024 at 6:55 PM
The "I Wish . . ." auction is now closed. We have been collating the winning bids and will be notifying winners soon. Please bear with us - we are working as fast as we can. Thanks to all for your participation and interest!
December 5, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Last reminder for the "I Wish . . . " exhibition -
Bidding ends at noon tomorrow.
Win a work of art, support Shandy Hall! Thanks to all artists and bidders so far.#art #exhibitions #auctions #ShandyHall #LaurenceSterne

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I Wish . . .
A Shandy Hall Exhibition | 20 May - 31 August 2023. Click on the images to bid.
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December 5, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Taking place today in Massachusetts! Good luck to the teams. Cain's Jawbone @unbounders #CainsJawbone #murdermysteryvia @norfolk_library

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December 5, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Richard I or a big squiggle? Nick Hornby unveils equine sculpture in the heart of Westminster:

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Richard I or a big squiggle? Nick Hornby unveils equine sculpture in the heart of Westminster
The commission is the first of three works by the artist to be unveiled in the capital this year
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December 5, 2024 at 6:55 PM
New work by sculptor Nick Hornby launched at the heart of Westminster: 'Power over others is Weakness disguised as strength' From one perspective Richard I, from another Laurence Sterne’s Flourish of Freedom #LaurenceSterne

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Considering Art Podcast – Nick Hornby, sculptor
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…
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December 5, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Shandy Hall dish for #StSwithinsDay
December 5, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Our exhibition 'covered'! Shandy Hall #art #exhibition #bookarts Thanks @SarahBodman

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December 5, 2024 at 6:54 PM