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William Blake’s radical printmaking technique
The site where radical English poet, painter and engraver, William Blake, lived with his wife Catherine for five years, and where he developed his revolutionary printmaking technique.
William Blake the engraver’s apprentice
The site of the workshop of the engraver James Basire, to whom visionary artist William Blake was apprenticed, 1772-1779
William Blake’s angel-filled tree on Peckham Rye
Where William Blake, at the age of 8, saw a vision of a tree “filled with angels, bright angelic wings bespangling every bough like stars.”
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A Fierce Argument over the Burial of a Suicide
In 1849, the reverend of Cottenham, and the Cambridgeshire coroner, had a fierce argument about whether a man of the parish could be given a proper Christian burial. Why? Because he had taken his own life. Learn about beliefs surrounding the burial of suicides in Victorian England.