After Manning’s death, 100,000 paid their respects. No wonder
March 7, 2019
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No one was ever more eager to submit to the judgment of Rome than Cardinal Manning, who served as Archbishop
How London greeted Handel’s astonishing gifts
November 22, 2018
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Handel in London by Jane Glover, Macmillan, 448pp, £25, $29.95 To begin on a carping note, Jane Glover’s subtitle, The
The writer who goes where historians don’t dare
December 21, 2017
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Friendships by Mark Girouard, Wilmington Square Books, 192pp, £16.99 In 2011 Mark Girouard, the eminent architectural historian, published Enthusiasms, a
‘With half a dozen Mannings England would have run the risk of converting to Christianity’
November 7, 2008
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From the archive: On the bicentenary of Cardinal Manning’s birth Robert Gray says he is under-appreciated by Catholics today