Rosemary Hill
speaker
490 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 7 Sep
Rosemary Hill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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poetry reading, public who do are not personally known to one another.
I think that's the big
And also, yes, that very English tendency to ignore, as in the theatre, to ignore the great sort of hierarchies of art which history painting
Uh people uh always sort of nodded towards history page, but what they didn't really want that.
What they wanted was pictures of themselves, pictures of their dogs, pictures of their horses, pictures sometimes of their houses in the country.
But I think that very
It's you know, we've had Aubrey's brief lives.
We've got th the idea of biography and personality, not just of
Kings and Queens, but of individual people, and the way in which Peeps takes a great interest in individual people who are not necessarily famous and prominent.
All of that is emerging out of this period of well, before it all goes wrong again.
Um, this period of really rather enjoyable life in London.
And it the other great development in London is the beginning or intellectually in London is the beginning of the Royal Society.
And bridging I mean it's interesting that this is happening in London.
It's not happening in Oxford or Cambridge.
um or in any of the other universities that exist by this time because it's being what we would now call interdisciplinary.
Yes.
Um they are just talking about their ideas and Wren
Who has a job um as a professor of astronomy at Oxford, but here he is talking about architecture beginning already to angle for architectural jobs, though really being an architect isn't yet quite a thing.
He's more of a surveyor.
And so this sense of intellectual, social, sociable life really beginning to bubble up.
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