Gaude rosa sine spina: Christmas carols and the Eton Choirbook

The Eton Choirbook, a rare and lovely survival of early Tudor choral music, does not, sadly, contain any Christmas carols.  Carols were around in the years 1500 to 1504, when the choirbook was being made.  They have their roots in the early middle ages, when Christmas music was either liturgical (the sequences of hymns assigned...

‘A great sense of mystery and tension’: Sophie Macfadyen responds to Gainsborough’s ‘A Rocky Road with Trees’

On 28th January 2019, 11 A-Level students and members of the History of Art Club from St George's, Ascot visited the Watercolours exhibition in the Verey Gallery. Prior to their visit the A-Level students researched selected works on display and prepared presentations which each student delivered in front of the artwork to the Club.  Below is...