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October 24, 2015

Book Review: Magna Carta

October 24, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A slim and intensely good new history of King John and the creation of the Great Charter

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October 24, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
History
dan jones, Magna Carta, October 2015, open letters weekly 15
October 11, 2015

Book Review: King John

October 11, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

On the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, a spirited new biography looks at King John

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October 11, 2015/ Steve Donoghue/
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January 01, 2011

The Light in Their Eyes

January 01, 2011/ Steve Donoghue

Thomas Lawrence was the rising young star painter of the politicians, soldiers, rakes, and mistresses of Regency London, but his work had a life and intelligence that transcended the trendy. A new book looks at a forgotten master.

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January 01, 2011/ Steve Donoghue/
Arts & Life
2nd Earl of Liverpool, A- Cassandre Albinson, Andrew Bloxam, Beethoven, Book Review, Charles William Vane-Stewart, Elizabeth Bennett, Fanny Burney, Frances Hawkins, George Anson, Henry Raeburn, HMS Blonde, January 2011, John Hoppner, John James Hamilton Junior, John Knowles, Joshua Reynolds, King George III, Lady Selina Meade, Lord Byron, Lucy Pelz, Magna Carta, Marcia Pointon, Napoleon Bonaparte, National Portrait Gallery of London, OLM, Open Letters Monthly, Painter-In-Ordinary, Peter Funnell, President of the Royal Academy, Princess Lichnowsky, Queen Charlotte, Regency Power & Brilliance, Richard Rowland Bloxam, Robert Banks Jenkinson, Sarah Barrett Moulton, Sarah Thackeray, Steve Donoghue, the 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, The child prodigy from Bath, Thomas Lawrence, Thomas Lawrence: Regency Power & Brilliance, Viscountess Cremorne, William Beechey, Yale University Press, Yale's Center for British Arts
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