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The importance of making tea correctly.

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2020-04-21

Under with access to the digital library, I decide to solve a 100-year-old literary mystery. How could who had never been to write a play set in Burma -- For Love of the King?
https://t.co/jOvqjTYx24

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2020-04-19

Robbie Ross needs justice. He and Oscar would have been so happy together, and I’m happy their ashes rest together in Oscar’s grave. Thanks to Lauren for commissioning this, it was a pleasure! Also, Robbie was played by in 1997 Wilde movie.

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2020-03-25

(One of the beautiful banners made by artist Ellie Bonham which would have led the March today. We hope you love it as much as we do!)

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2020-03-21

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."

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2020-02-14

Here's the picture I've been working on this morning. About to load up a bunch of print sheets for the carpenter!

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2020-02-10

"To define is to limit."

by Annie Stegg

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2020-01-28

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."


🎨#DavidCarmackLewis

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2020-01-07

died in 1900. In 1895 Wilde was sentenced to 2 years hard labour after being found guilty of ‘gross indecency’

See the cell door from Wilde's cell at Reading Gaol in our museum and stand on the Bow St dock where Wilde once stood

Illustration:

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2019-11-30

I read The Picture of Dorian Gray again after many years so I had to try and draw my interpretation of Dorian.

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2019-11-21

A flower blossoms for its own joy..

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2019-11-02

The funniest play in the English language is now a comic strip! Check out The Importance of Being Earnest by Luca Debus. I provided the introduction.

https://t.co/W5nbpbc3NO

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2019-10-22

"Las mujeres tienen el propósito de ser amadas, de no ser entendidas." Oscar Wilde

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2019-10-17

Un día como hoy, de 1854, nació De entre sus muchas frases para rumiar, ésta especialmente me la recuerdo a mí mismo de vez en cuando como docente y padre.

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2019-10-16

Born in Dublin the great playwright, poet and writer Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900). "The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever." -

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2019-10-16

From ⁦⁩ exhibition inside Reading Gaol in 2016. The door of Oscar Wilde’s cell.

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2019-10-08

"Hasta el más valiente de los héroes se teme a sí mismo."

by Puppeter Lee

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2019-09-28