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SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Earl of Lauderdale's fury over National Trust 'slavery' slur on ancestor


The sumptuous Ham House in Richmond, South-West London, is described as a rare surviving example of 17th century luxury and taste .
But that hasn t prevented it from becoming the setting for a full-scale punch-up between Ian Maitland, 18th Earl of Lauderdale, and the National Trust.
At stake is the reputation of the first and last Duke of Lauderdale, who, together with his wife, is credited with transforming Ham into one of the grandest houses in Stuart England but who, the Trust now alleges, enriched himself via the slave trade.
Ian Maitland, a direct descendant of the Duke s younger brother, derides the allegation as rubbish scholarship .  ....

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The Multitude of Books | Lapham's Quarterly


Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Portrait of a Young Man, by Bronzino, c. 1530. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, H.O. Havemeyer Collection, bequest of Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, 1929.
It is impossible to measure the odds of someone else inventing printing if Gutenberg had not, but I suggest that they were high. Claims of a simultaneous invention by Laurens Janszoon Coster seem grounded only in a sixteenth-century attempt at burnishing the reputation of Coster’s hometown of Haarlem, in the Netherlands. But all the elements were readily available, as well as existing demand for what printing could offer, so the idea could plausibly have occurred to someone else around the same time. We now appreciate that printing by both woodblock (xylography) and (more rarely) movable characters (made of wood or porcelain but also metal) was in use centuries earlier in multiple East Asian contexts. Nevertheless, there is no good evidence of a westward transmission of printing from Asia to Europe, a ....

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