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  • George Bell, Walter Hussey and Christian support of refugee artists in England, 1943-58

    This is a talk given at St John’s church by Waterloo station in central London, as part of a one-day conference, “A Jewish Jesus: Art and Faith in the Shadow of World War II” on Wednesday, 16th June 2021. The sound quality is not ideal, but usable. Although the title refers both to George Bell,…

  • Walter Hussey, Graham Sutherland and ‘Noli me tangere’ (1961)

    [It is now sixty years since the unveiling of Noli me tangere, a painting by Graham Sutherland for Chichester cathedral, in April 1961. In this adapted extract from my book on Walter Hussey, the dean of Chichester who commissioned the work, I examine the commissioning of the work, and its reception.] Walter Hussey’s understanding of…

  • Sacred and secular martyrdom: a review

    Sacred and secular martyrdom in Britain and Ireland since 1914 John Wolffe London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, viii + 197pp., £85 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-35001927-0. [A review forthcoming in the Journal of Beliefs and Values.] After the terrorist attacks in the USA in 2001, and in London four years later, the idea of martyrdom gained a new…

  • Martyrs, memorials and meaning in Protestant England

    Sitting in what William Morris described as ‘a great amphitheatre of chalk hills’, the market town of Lewes is one of Sussex’s particular delights. For all its quiet charm, the town is perhaps best known for its elaborate celebrations of Bonfire Night, during which the several bonfire societies in and around the town converge ina…

  • Walter Hussey, Henry Moore and the Northampton ‘Madonna and Child’

    It was a great pleasure to give a lecture at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester on 9th January on the subject of Walter Hussey, Henry Moore, and the Madonna and Child made for St Matthew’s church in Northampton in 1943-4. It is available on Soundcloud and the slides in Slideshare. The lecture was largely drawn…