Rare books, manuscripts, music, ephemera…
6th December 2019
Yesterday, we featured a carol that first appeared in The English Hymnal (1906). Today is the turn of another beloved carol which appeared for the first time in that book: ‘O little town of Bethlehem’. This carol owes its origin to the folk song revival of the early twentieth century, which is often twinned with […]
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19th February 2014
This book came in recently, appealing to my interests in Russia, music, and (as you may have read before) the First World War. Dating from 1914, it’s a charitable publication: ‘20% from each copy sold will go towards helping the All-Russian Zemstvo Union for Aid to Sick and Wounded Troops’ (founded July 1914), it reads. […]
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