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Richard Holmes (biographer)

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Richard Gordon Heath Holmes, OBE, FRSL, FBA (born 5 November 1945) is a British author and academic best known for his biographical studies of major figures of British and French Romanticism. [1]

67 relations: Alexander Gilchrist, BBC Radio, BBC Radio 4, Book of the Week, British Academy, Charles Darwin, Churchill College, Cambridge, Costa Book Awards, Daniel Defoe, Deep time, Downside School, Duff Cooper Prize, EBSCO Information Services, Europe, Footsteps (autobiography), Geoffrey Scott (architectural historian), Harper Perennial, Heinemann Award, History of ballooning, Isabelle de Charrière, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, John Keats, Jonathan Wild, Kingston University, Life of William Blake, London, Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, National Portrait Gallery, London, New Statesman, Norfolk, North Pole, Order of the British Empire, Outer space, Pantheon Books, Radio National, Radiolab, Ramona Koval, Richard Holmes (military historian), Richard Savage (poet), Robert Hampson, Robert Southey, Romantic literature in English, Romanticism, Rose Tremain, Royal Society of Literature, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Science and technology in France, ..., Science and technology in the United Kingdom, Science History Institute, Sidetracks (book), Siege of Paris (1870–71), Somerset Maugham Award, Tavistock Institute, The Age of Wonder, The Book Show, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, This Long Pursuit, Thomas Chatterton, University of East Anglia, University of East London, William Godwin, 1989 Whitbread Awards. Expand index (17 more) »

Alexander Gilchrist

Alexander Gilchrist (182830 November 1861) was the biographer of William Etty and of William Blake.

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BBC Radio

BBC Radio is an operational business division and service of the British Broadcasting Corporation (which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927).

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BBC Radio 4

BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history.

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Book of the Week

Book of the Week is a BBC Radio 4 series that is broadcast daily on week days.

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British Academy

The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences.

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Charles Darwin

Charles Robert Darwin, (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.

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Churchill College, Cambridge

Churchill College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.

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Costa Book Awards

The Costa Book Awards are a set of annual literary awards recognizing English-language books by writers based in Britain and Ireland.

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Daniel Defoe

Daniel Defoe (13 September 1660 - 24 April 1731), born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy.

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Deep time

Deep time is the concept of geologic time.

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Downside School

Downside School is a co-educational Catholic independent school for children aged 11 to 18, located in Stratton-on-the-Fosse, between Westfield and Shepton Mallet in Somerset, south west England, attached to Downside Abbey.

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Duff Cooper Prize

The Duff Cooper Prize is a literary prize awarded annually for the best work of history, biography, political science or (very occasionally) poetry, published in English or French.

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EBSCO Information Services

EBSCO Information Services, headquartered in Ipswich, Massachusetts, is a division of EBSCO Industries Inc., the third largest private company in Birmingham, Alabama, with annual sales of nearly $2 billion according to the BBJ's 2013 Book of Lists.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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Footsteps (autobiography)

Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer is an autobiographical book by the biographer Richard Holmes, published by Viking Press in 1985.

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Geoffrey Scott (architectural historian)

Geoffrey Scott (11 June 1884 – 14 August 1929) was an English scholar and poet, known as a historian of architecture.

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Harper Perennial

Harper Perennial is a paperback imprint of the publishing house HarperCollins Publishers.

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Heinemann Award

The W. H. Heinemann Award is an award established by William Heinemann who bequeathed funds to the Royal Society of Literature to establish a literary prize, given from 1945 to 2003.

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History of ballooning

The history of ballooning, both with hot air and gas, spans many centuries.

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Isabelle de Charrière

Isabelle de Charrière (20 October 174027 December 1805), known as Belle van Zuylen in the Netherlands, née Isabella Agneta Elisabeth van Tuyll van Serooskerken, and Isabelle de Charrière elsewhere, was a Dutch writer of the Enlightenment who lived the latter half of her life in Colombier, Neuchâtel.

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James Tait Black Memorial Prize

The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are literary prizes awarded for literature written in the English language.

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John Keats

John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English Romantic poet.

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Jonathan Wild

Jonathan Wild also spelled Wilde (1682 or 1683 – 24 May 1725) was a London underworld figure notable for operating on both sides of the law, posing as a public-spirited crimefighter entitled the "Thief-Taker General".

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Kingston University

Kingston University London (informally Kingston or KUL) is a public research university located within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, in South West London, United Kingdom.

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Life of William Blake

The Life of William Blake, “Pictor Ignotus.” With selections from his poems and other writings is a two-volume work on the English painter and poet William Blake, first published in 1863.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known as Lord Byron, was an English nobleman, poet, peer, politician, and leading figure in the Romantic movement.

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Mary Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel ''Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus'' (1818).

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Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft (27 April 1759 – 10 September 1797) was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights.

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National Portrait Gallery, London

The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art gallery in London housing a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people.

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New Statesman

The New Statesman is a British political and cultural magazine published in London.

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Norfolk

Norfolk is a county in East Anglia in England.

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North Pole

The North Pole, also known as the Geographic North Pole or Terrestrial North Pole, is (subject to the caveats explained below) defined as the point in the Northern Hemisphere where the Earth's axis of rotation meets its surface.

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Order of the British Empire

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the Civil service.

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Outer space

Outer space, or just space, is the expanse that exists beyond the Earth and between celestial bodies.

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Pantheon Books

Pantheon Books is an American book publishing imprint with editorial independence.

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Radio National

ABC Radio National, known on-air as RN, is an Australia-wide Public Service Broadcasting radio network run by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Radiolab

Radiolab is a radio program produced by WNYC, a public radio station in New York City, and broadcast on public radio stations in the United States.

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Ramona Koval

Ramona Koval (born 1954, Melbourne) is an Australian broadcaster, writer and journalist.

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Richard Holmes (military historian)

Edward Richard Holmes, CBE, TD, VR, JP (29 March 1946 – 30 April 2011), known as Richard Holmes, was a British soldier and military historian, known for his many television appearances.

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Richard Savage (poet)

Richard Savage (c. 1697 – 1 August 1743) was an English poet.

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Robert Hampson

Joshua Robert Hampson (born 10 June 1965 in Bromley, Kent) is an English musician and composer, known primarily as a guitarist in the band Loop, which he co-founded in London in 1985 with his then-girlfriend Becky "Bex" Stewart.

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Robert Southey

Robert Southey (or 12 August 1774 – 21 March 1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the "Lake Poets" along with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and England's Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 until his death in 1843.

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Romantic literature in English

Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century.

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Romanticism

Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.

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Rose Tremain

Rose Tremain CBE FRSL (born 2 August 1943) is an English novelist, short story writer, and former Chancellor of the University of East Anglia.

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Royal Society of Literature

The Royal Society of Literature (RSL) is a learned society founded in 1820, by King George IV, to "reward literary merit and excite literary talent".

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Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson LL.D. (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets.

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Science and technology in France

Science and technology in France has a long history dating back to the Acádémie des Sciences, founded by Louis XIV in 1666, at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research.

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Science and technology in the United Kingdom

Science and technology in the United Kingdom has a long history, producing many important figures and developments in the field.

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Science History Institute

The Science History Institute is an institution that preserves and promotes understanding of the history of science.

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Sidetracks (book)

Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer is an autobiographical book by the biographer Richard Holmes, his second of three.

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Siege of Paris (1870–71)

The Siege of Paris, lasting from 19 September 1870 to 28 January 1871, and the consequent capture of the city by Prussian forces, led to French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War and the establishment of the German Empire as well as the Paris Commune.

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Somerset Maugham Award

The Somerset Maugham Award is a British literary prize given each year by the Society of Authors.

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Tavistock Institute

The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations or TIHR is a British not-for-profit organisation which applies social science to contemporary issues and problems.

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The Age of Wonder

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science is a 2008 popular science book about the history of science written by Richard Holmes.

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The Book Show

The Book Show was an Australian ABC radio program for the discussion of everything relating to the written word.

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The New York Review of Books

The New York Review of Books (or NYREV or NYRB) is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.

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This Long Pursuit

This Long Pursuit is an autobiographical book written by biographer Richard Holmes and published by Harper Collins in 2016.

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Thomas Chatterton

Thomas Chatterton (20 November 1752 – 24 August 1770) was an English poet whose precocious talents ended in suicide at age 17.

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University of East Anglia

The University of East Anglia (abbreviated as UEA) is a public research university in Norwich, England.

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University of East London

The University of East London (UEL) is a public university in the London Borough of Newham, London, England, based at three campuses in Stratford and Docklands, following the opening of University Square Stratford in September 2013.

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William Godwin

William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist.

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1989 Whitbread Awards

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