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Kew
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Kew is a village in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in South West London.

The Parish Church of Saint Anne, Kew

Kew is best known for being the location of the Royal Botanic Gardens, now a World Heritage Site, which includes Kew Palace. Kew is also the home of Domesday Book which is on public display at The National Archives (previously known as the Public Record Office).

Since 1965 Kew has incorporated the former area of North Sheen^[1] which includes St Philip and All Saints, the first barn church to be consecrated in England.^[2] It is now in a combined Church of England parish with St Luke's Church, Kew.

"Kew Village" refers to the parades of shops adjoining Kew Gardens station. It contains the Kew Bookshop, a whole foods store, several independent retailers, restaurants and cafes. A village community market is held on the first Sunday of every month. There are also major high street retailers at the nearby Kew retail park (originally known as Richmond Retail Park).

Today, Kew is a popular residential area because of its open spaces, schools, transport links and proximity to Kew Gardens. Most of Kew developed in the late 19th century, following the arrival of the District Line of the Underground, and is characterised by large detached or semi-detached houses. Further development took place in the 1920s and 1930s when new houses were built on the market gardens of North Sheen and in the first decade of the 21st century when flats and houses were constructed at Kew Riverside on land formerly owned by Thames Water.

Etymology[link]

The name Kew is a combination of two words: the Old French kai (landing place; 'quay' derives from this) and Old English hoh (spur of land). The land spur is the bend in the Thames. The name was recorded in 1327 as Cayho.^[3]

History[link]

The earliest written reference to Kew is thought to be contained in Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars, as the location where the Roman Army forded the Thames in 54 BC ^[4].Henry V developed a Carthusian monastery to the south west of where Kew Observatory now stands.^[5] Successive Tudor, Stuart and Georgian monarchs maintained links with Kew. One of Henry VIII's closest friends, Henry Norris, lived at Kew Farm,^[5] which was later owned by Elizabeth I's favourite, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.^[6] In Elizabeth's reign, and under the Stuarts, houses were developed along Kew Green.^[7] West Hall, which survives in West Hall Road, dates from at least the 14th century and the present house was built at the end of the 17th century.^[8] Queen Anne subscribed to the building of the parish church on Kew Green, which was dedicated to St Anne in 1714, three months before the queen's death.^[9]

The Hanoverians maintained the strongest links with Kew, in particular Princess Augusta who founded the botanic gardens ^[10] and her husbandFrederick, Prince of Wales who resided at the White House in Kew and commissioned the building of the first substantial greenhouse at Kew ^[11]. Frederick also famously received the gift of a dog from Alexander Pope with a collar inscribed:

I am His Highness' dog at Kew;

Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

Epigram, engraved on the Collar of a Dog which I gave to his Royal Highness (Frederick, Prince of Wales) — Alexander Pope, 1688-1744

George III and Queen Charlotte established their main summer court at Kew in the 1760s and 1770s and patronised artists such as Thomas Gainsborough and John Zoffany ^[12].

Notable inhabitants[link]

Historically notable inhabitants include: Frederick, Prince of Wales; Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha; Capability Brown; John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute; artists Thomas Gainsborough, Arthur Hughes and Camille Pissarro; and Liberal Party leader Jo Grimond.

Transport and locale[link]

The traditional mode of transport between Kew and London, for rich and poor alike, was by water along the Thames which, historically, separated Middlesex (on the north bank) from Surrey (which then included Kew, on the south bank). Kew was connected to Middlesex by ferry. The first bridge crossing the Thames at Kew was built in 1759. The current Kew Bridge, which today carries the South Circular Road (the A205), was opened by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra in 1903.

The A205 road passes through Kew, with Kew Road providing the main road link to Richmond. The M4 motorway starts a short distance north of Kew, providing access to Heathrow Airport and the west. The A316 road starts in Chiswick and continues over Chiswick Bridge and junctions with the South Circular Road at Chalker's Corner.

Since 1869 rail services have been available from Kew Gardens station. London Underground (District Line) services run to Richmond and to central London. London Overground trains run to Richmond and (via Willesden Junction) to Stratford.

Nearest places

Shops adjoining Kew Gardens station

• Brentford
• Richmond
• Gunnersbury
• Chiswick
• Mortlake
• Barnes

Nearest railway stations

• Kew Bridge station (South West Trains)
• Kew Gardens station (London Overground; London Underground District Line)
• North Sheen station (South West Trains)

Bridges

• Kew Bridge, which carries the A205 South Circular Road. Beside the bridge is Kew Gardens Pier, which serves tourist ferries operating under licence from London River Services.
• Kew Railway Bridge

Parks and open spaces[link]

• Kew Green includes an old horse pond and is used for cricket matches in the summer.^[13]
• Kew Pond, northwest of Kew Green, has a reed bed habitat and a resident population of water birds.^[14]
• North Sheen Recreation Ground in Dancer Road, known locally as "The Rec", was originally part of an orchard belonging to the Popham Estate, owned by the Leyborne Pophams whose family seat was at Littlecote House, Wiltshire. Opened in June 1909 and extended in 1923, it now contains football pitches, a running track, a children's paddling pool, two extensive playgrounds, a large dog-free grassed area and a pavilion set amongst trees and shrubs.^[15]
• Pensford Field,^[16]previously playing fields of the former Gainsborough School, is now a nature reserve and also the home of Pensford Tennis Club.
• St Luke's Open Space was derived from a former Victorian school, and is now a quiet sitting area with toddlers' play equipment.^[17]
• Westerley Ware Recreation Ground, a small garden and recreation ground at the foot of Kew Bridge. It has a memorial garden bordered by hedges, a grass area, three hard tennis courts and a children's playground. Originally created as a memorial garden to the fallen in the First World War, the name refers to the practice of netting weird or "wares" to catch fish.^[18]

Sport and leisure[link]

Kew has several sports clubs and gyms including Kew Cricket Club [1], North Sheen Bowling Club [2], Pensford Tennis Club [3], Putney Town Rowing Club [4] and Richmond Gymnastics Association [5].

Kew is also home to local football club, Kew Park Rangers [6]. The club began in 1997 in Westerly Ware.^[18] Word quickly spread at the local school that there was a kick about on Saturday mornings and more children arrived until there were regularly about 10-12 children.

As the crowd of children grew, alongside tournament and further development ambitions, the club decided to become official and registered for the Surrey County Football Association. Richmond Council eventually came up with a team pitch and a move to the North Sheen Recreational Ground^[15] was secured. Kew Park Rangers Football Club was born in the summer of 1999, and continues to grow year on year. A new £1 million sports pavilion has been built.^[19]and was opened in September 2011.^[20]

Education[link]

Primary schools

• Darell Primary School [7]
• Kew Riverside Primary School [8]
• The Queen's Church of England Primary School [9]

Independent preparatory schools

• Broomfield House School [10]
• Kew College [11]
• Kew Green Preparatory School [12]
• Unicorn School [13]

Quotes[link]

Lilac in Kew Gardens

'Trams and dusty trees.
Highbury bore me. Richmond and Kew
Undid me.'

The Waste Land, 1922 (T.S.Eliot), 1888-1965

And the wildest dreams of Kew are the facts of Khatmandhu

In The Neolithic Age, 1892 (Rudyard Kipling)

Go down to Kew in lilac-time, in lilac-time, in lilac-time;
Go down to Kew in lilac-time (it isn't far from London!)
And you shall wander hand in hand with love in summer's wonderland;
Go down to Kew in lilac-time (it isn't far from London!)

The Barrel-Organ, (Alfred Noyes), 1880-1958

Lady Croom:- My hyacinth dell is become a haunt for
hobgoblins, my Chinese bridge, which I am assured is
superior to the one at Kew, and for all I know at Peking, is
usurped by a fallen obelisk overgrown with briars-

Arcadia (play),1993 (Tom Stoppard), 1937-

Gallery[link]

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  The Parish Church of St Anne

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  Kew Green

See also[link]

• Kew Observatory
• St Anne's Church, Kew
• St Luke's Church, Kew
• St Philip and All Saints Church, Kew (the Barn Church)
• Kew Cricket Club

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Kew

Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Kew.

• Kew Society
• Richmond Society
• Richmond Local History Society
• Kew Community Trust
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Kew Gardens)
• Westerly Ware Association
• Kew Horticultural Society

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John Greaves (1602 – 8 October 1652) was an English mathematician, astronomer and antiquary.

Life[link]

He was born in Colemore, near Alresford, Hampshire. He was the eldest son of John Greaves, rector of Colemore, and Sarah Greaves.^[1] His brothers were Nicholas Greaves, Thomas Greaves and Sir Edward Greaves, physician to Charles II.

His father ran a school for sons of the neighbouring gentry, where Greaves began his education.^[2] Aged 15, he went to Balliol College, Oxford between 1617–1621, gaining a B.A. degree. In 1624 he was the first of five newly-elected Fellows of Merton College, becoming M.A. in 1628.^[3] He began to study astronomy and oriental languages, and especially the works of the ancient eastern astronomers. In 1630 Greaves was chosen professor of geometry at Gresham College, London. Through his predecessor, Peter Turner, he later met archbishop William Laud, the chancellor of Oxford University and Visitor (patron) of Merton College. Laud was keen to make English editions of Greek and Arabic authors, and Greaves' later travels abroad involved collecting manuscripts and books for presentation to his new patron.

Greaves enrolled at University of Leyden in 1633, where he became friends with Jacob Golius, professor of Arabic at Leyden. He enrolled at the University of Padua in 1635 along with George Ent, meeting the Dane Johan Rode (John Rhodius), an expert on ancient weights and measures, who also made a commentary on Celsus. A brief return to England was followed by a second European journey; in 1636 he sailed via Livorno (Leghorn) to Rome, dining with Ent on 5 October at the English College, Rome; he also met William Harvey, who was entertained at the College on the 12th, Gasparo Berti, Lucas Holstenius and Athanasius Kircher. Probably in the same month he met and consulted with the Earl of Arundel's art-collecting agent, William Petty (who dined at the College on 14 October), on the Earl's attempted acquisition of the Obelisk of Domitian, then still lying broken in the Circus of Maxentius. Though 'now it is broken into 5 stones' he measured these and including a sketch of the obelisk as hypothetically repaired in his almanac-notebook (Bodleian Library Savile MS 49,1). Though Arundel paid a 60 crown deposit for the obelisk, pope Urban VIII vetoed its export and it was erected by his successor Innocent X above Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers in the Piazza Navona.^[4]

Greaves toured the Catacombs and made drawings of the Pantheon and Pyramid of Cestius. During his stay in Rome he instituted inquiries into the ancient weights and measures that are among the early classics of metrology.

In 1637 he made a journey to the Levant, one (unfulfilled) intention being to fix the latitude of Alexandria where Ptolemy had made his astronomical observations. He sailed from England to Livorno in the company of Edward Pococke; after a brief visit to Rome, he arrived in Istanbul (Constantinople) around April 1638. There he made the acquaintance of the English ambassador Sir Peter Wyche. He procured various manuscripts there, including a copy of Ptolemy's Almagest ("the fairest work I ever saw").^[5] Greaves ended up owning two copies of the Almagest. He was going to have visited the many monastic libraries at Mount Athos, in order to make a catalogue of their MSS and unprinted books. Athos was normally open only to members of the Orthodox church, but thanks to a special dispensation from the Patriarch of Constantinople Cyril Lucaris, Greaves would have had access; but the execution of the patriarch by strangulation in June 1638 for treason against Sultan Murad IV prevented his journey.^[3]

Instead, Greaves continued on to Alexandria, where he collected a number of Arabic, Persian and Greek manuscripts. He was an inveterate note-taker, making countless observations in notebooks and on blank pages of other books he bought; he also visited Cairo twice, and made a more accurate survey of the pyramids of Egypt than any traveller who had preceded him. He returned to England in 1640.

On the death of John Bainbridge in 1643, Greaves was appointed as Savilian professor of astronomy and senior reader of the Linacre lecture at Oxford; but he was deprived of his Gresham professorship for having neglected its duties. In 1645 he essayed a reformation of the calendar; but although his plan of omitting the bissextile day (29 February) for the next 40 years was approved by the king, the matter was dropped owing to the turbulent times.

Ejection from Oxford[link]

In 1642 Greaves had been elected subwarden of Merton College. Merton was the only Oxford college to side with the Parliamentarians in the English Civil War, through an earlier dispute in 1638 between Nathaniel Brent, the Warden of Merton, and Greaves' patron William Laud. Brent had been a hostile witness at Laud's 1644 trial. After Laud was executed on 10 January 1645, Greaves drew up a petition for Brent's removal from office; Brent was deposed by Charles I on 27 January.

However, in 1647 a parliamentary commission (visitation) was set up by Parliament "for the correction of offences, abuses, and disorders" in the University of Oxford. Nathaniel Brent was the president of the visitors.^[6] After Thomas Fairfax had captured Oxford for the Parliamentarians in 1648 and Brent had returned from London, Greaves was accused of sequestrating the college's plate and funds for king Charles.^[7] Despite a deposition from his brother Thomas, Greaves had lost both his Merton fellowship and his Savilian chair by 9 November 1648. Many of his books and MSS disappeared after his rooms were rifled by soldiers, although his friend John Selden managed to recover some of them. However, Greaves was not actually deprived of the professorship until August 1649.^[8] He was succeeded as Savilian Professor of Astronomy in that year by Seth Ward, who ensured that Greaves was paid the arrears (£500) of his salary; Greaves was unlikely to have got his money, since the Savilian professors were paid from the income of lands held in Kent and Essex, which were under control of Parliament (rather than the king). Ward also gave over a considerable amount of his own salary to Greaves.^[9]

But Greaves' private fortune more than sufficed for all his wants till his death; he retired to London, married and occupied his leisure writing and editing books and manuscripts. He died in London aged 50, and was buried in the church of St Benet Sherehog, which was destroyed during the Great Fire of London.^[7]

His brother Nicholas Greaves was his executor.^[10] He left his cabinet containing his coin collection to Sir John Marsham, and his astronomical instruments to the university, for the use of the Savilian professors.^[11] Two of his astrolabes (inscribed by his brother Nicholas) are in the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford. (see External links)

Works[link]

Besides his papers in the Philosophical Transactions, the principal works of Greaves are:

• Pyramidographia, or a Description of the Pyramids in Ægypt (1646)
• A Discourse on the Roman Foot and Denarius (1647)
• Elementa Linguae Persicae (1649)

The first two above works were reprinted (together with a biographical notice of the author) as part of

• Greaves, John (1737) Miscellaneous works of Mr. John Greaves Vol. I and Vol. II. London: Published by Dr Thomas Birch, printed by J. Hughes for J. Brindley and C. Corbett. This also contains a reprint of
• Withers, Robert (ed. John Greaves) A Description of the Grand Signour’s Seraglio; or Turkish Emperours Court (1653) London: Printed for Jo. Ridley, at the Castle in Fleet-street by Ram-Alley.

Translations:

• Chorasmiae et Mawaralnahrae, etc. (1650). A description of Khwarezm and Mawarannahr (Transoxiana) translated from the Arabic of Abu'l-Fida, with tables of latitude and longitude for the principal towns.
• Abulfedae Peninsulam Arabum. This is an edited translation of part of Abu'l-Fida's History.
• Binae Tabulae Geographicae, two tables of latitude and longitude translated from the Persian of Nasir al-Din al-Tusi and Ulugh Beg

The above three works appeared in Hudson, John (1712): Geographiae Veteris Scriptores Graeci Minores Vol. III, Oxon. (in Latin)

• Lemmata Archimedis, apud Graecos et Latinos iam pridem desiderata, e vetusto codice manuscripto Arabico... This is a translation of part of Nasir al-Din al-Tusi's edition of the so-called Middle Books.^[12] Greaves' unpublished MS was revised and amended by Samuel Foster and appeared posthumously in 1659.
• Foster, Samuel (1659). Miscellanea sive lucubrationes mathematicae. London: printed by R. & W. Leybourn, published by John Twysden.

The following book is probably not by John Greaves, although his name appears on the title-page:

• Greaves, John. The origin and antiquity of our English weights and measures discover'd... (Google books 1745 edition) London: Printed for G. Sawbridge. This book, thrice printed in 1706, 1727 and 1745, discusses Greaves' findings and measurements: but it appears to be the work of another hand.

See also[link]

• List of Gresham Professors of Geometry
• Pyramid inch

References[link]

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

External links[link]

• Measurer of all things: John Greaves – The great Pyramid and early Modern Metrology by Zur Shalev
• Astrolabe belonging to John Greaves, inscribed by Nicholas Greaves.
• Large astrolabe originally made for Queen Elizabeth I, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford

Peter Blegvad
Peter Blegvad with the Peter Blegvad Trio performing at a RIO Festival in Southern France, April 2007 (© Michael S. Eisenberg)
Background information
Birth name	Peter Blegvad
Born	(1951-08-14) August 14, 1951 (age 60) New York City, United States
Genres	Avant-rock, Experimental
Occupations	Musician, Lyricist, Cartoonist, Illustrator
Instruments	Guitar, vocals
Years active	1960s–present
Labels	Virgin, Recommended
Associated acts	Slapp Happy, Henry Cow, The Lodge, John Greaves, Chris Cutler

Peter Blegvad (born 14 August 1951) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, and cartoonist. He was a founding member of the avant-pop band Slapp Happy, which later merged briefly with Henry Cow, and has released many solo and collaborative albums. He is the son of Lenore and Erik Blegvad, who are respectively, a children's book author and illustrator.

Biography[link]

Peter Blegvad's life began in America – he was born in New York City and originally raised in Connecticut. When he was 14, the Blegvad family moved to England in 1965, unhappy with the social climate of America following the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the threat posed by the Vietnam draft to Peter and his younger brother Kristoffer. Blegvad was educated at St Christopher School, Letchworth, a boarding school where he met his musical collaborator Anthony Moore. Moore and Blegvad played in various bands during their schooldays, alongside fellow musicians such as Neil Murray (then a drummer, later a well-known hard rock bass guitarist).^[1]

In 1972, Blegvad followed the itinerant Moore to Hamburg, Germany, where the two formed the avant-pop trio Slapp Happy with Dagmar Krause,^[1][2] Slapp Happy recorded two albums for Polydor Germany with krautrock group Faust as their backing band. Polydor released the first, Sort Of in 1972, but rejected the second, Casablanca Moon. This rejection prompted Slapp Happy to relocate to London where they signed up with Virgin Records and re-recorded Casablanca Moon, released in 1974 by Virgin as Slapp Happy. (The original Casablanca Moon was later released by Recommended Records as Acnalbasac Noom in 1980.) In 1974 Slapp Happy merged briefly with avant-rock group Henry Cow, recording two albums in 1975, Desperate Straights and In Praise of Learning.

Shortly after recording In Praise of Learning, first Moore and then Blegvad left Henry Cow due of incompatibilities with the other musicians in the group. Blegvad has confessed that the technical demands of Henry Cow's music were beyond him ("It was discovered – not to my surprise – that I actually couldn't play Henry Cow music. The chords and the time signatures were too complicated. And... just generally, Anthony and I felt kinda lost..."^[1]) but it was also clear that there were crucial differences in artistic approach. Blegvad would later reveal (in an interview for the Hearsay fanzine) that "the piece that got me kicked out was "Living in the Heart of the Beast". I was assigned the task for the collective to come up with suitable verbals, and I wrote two verses about a woman throwing raisins at a pile of bones. Tim Hodgkinson just said, I'm sorry, this is not at all what we want. And he wrote reams of this political tirade. I admired his passion and application but it left me cold. I am to my bones a flippant individual, I don't know why I was created thus or what I'm trying to deny, but it clashed with the extreme seriousness. People who take themselves very seriously make me giggle, unless they're pointing a weapon at me or my loved ones".^[1] Due to Krause's decision to remain with Henry Cow, Slapp Happy dissolved and the three members went their separate ways (although the group would periodically reunite in 1982–1983, 1991, 1997 and 2000).

Blegvad returned to New York to work as a cartoonist, but maintained his interest in music. In 1977 he reunited with Henry Cow bass player John Greaves to collaborate on the album Kew. Rhone. – an unusual cross-genre release combining elements of minimalism, avant-garde jazz and progressive rock. The album was also notable for its personnel, which included celebrated New York jazz musicians Carla Bley, Michael Mantler, and Andrew Cyrille among the performers. As a musical document Kew. Rhone. remains both ambitious and unclassifiable; Blegvad's literate and playful lyrics are well-matched by Greaves' complex song structures. Blegvad would later continue his collaboration with Greaves in 1995 on Unearthed, a collection of spoken word pieces set to Greaves' music.

In the 1980s, Blegvad released a number of commercially unsuccessful albums on the Virgin Records label, including The Naked Shakespeare and Knights Like This, both of which show the influence of external producers. By contrast, Downtime, an independent release in the late 1980s features mainly very simple demos, often recorded cheaply in professional studios' "downtime". King Strut and Other Stories (Virgin, 1990) is a collection of short stories set to simply arranged, professionally produced music played in many cases by noted session musicians. The album features XTC's Andy Partridge while Orpheus - The Lowdown (2003) is a whole album in collaboration with Partridge. Many of Blegvad's albums feature former members of Slapp Happy and Henry Cow.

Blegvad is a deft and literate lyricist whose lyrics frequently feature word games, literary references and complex and extended rhyme schemes. He can also claim credit for one of the world's longest grammatically correct palindromes (from Kew. Rhone.):

Peel's foe not a set animal laminates a tone of sleep.^[3]

From 1992 to 1999, The Independent ran Blegvad's strangely surreal, comic strip, Leviathan, which received much critical praise for blending some of the most interesting elements of Krazy Kat with a coming-of-age-esque story akin to Calvin and Hobbes. Some of the strips have been collected in the 2001 volume The Book of Leviathan. Other comics and illustrations by Blegvad have appeared in The Ganzfeld and Ben Katchor's Picture Story 2.

He has also conducted two- and three-week writing courses at Warwick University, England, in association with the National Academy for Gifted and Talented Youth (NAGTY), and the new University of Warwick venture for gifted and creative children, International Gateway for Gifted Youth (IGGY).

In 2011, the London Institute for 'Pataphysics published Blegvad's The Bleaching Stream, described as an "interview format biography."

Discography[link]

Solo[link]

• The Naked Shakespeare (1983, LP, Virgin Records)
• Knights Like This (1985, LP, Virgin Records)
• Downtime (1988, LP, Recommended Records)
• King Strut & Other Stories (1990, LP/CT/CD, Silvertone Records)
• Just Woke Up (1995, CD, East Side Digital)
• Hangman's Hill (1998, CD, Recommended Records)
• Choices Under Pressure (2001, CD, Voiceprint Records)

Bands and projects[link]

With Slapp Happy

• Sort Of (1972, LP, Polydor Records)
• Slapp Happy (1974, LP, Virgin Records)
  • Slapp Happy or Slapphappy (1980, LP, Recommended Records)
• Desperate Straights (1975, LP, Virgin Records) as Slapp Happy/Henry Cow
• In Praise of Learning (1975, LP, Virgin Records) as Henry Cow/Slapp Happy
• Ça Va (1998, CD, V2 Records)
• Camera (2000, CD, Voiceprint Records) as Peter Blegvad, Dagmar Krause and Anthony Moore
• Live in Japan (2001, CD, F.M.N. Sound Factory)

With John Greaves and Lisa Herman

• Kew. Rhone. (1977, LP, Virgin Records)

With National Health

• Of Queues and Cures (1978, LP, Charly Records) (recitation on "Squarer For Maud")

With John Zorn

• Locus Solus (1983, LP, Rift Records)

With The Golden Palominos

• Blast of Silence (1986, LP, Celluloid Records)

With The Lodge

• Smell of a Friend (1988, LP, Island Records)

With Dr. Huelsenbecks Mentale Heilmethode

• Dada (1992, LP, Rough Trade Records)

With John Greaves

• Unearthed (1995, CD, Sub Rosa)

With Andy Partridge

• Orpheus - The Lowdown (2003, CD, Pony Canyon)

Footnotes[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Peter Blegvad

• Peter Blegvad biography. The Canterbury Website.
• Peter Blegvad biography. Musician Biographies.
• Peter Blegvad at Allmusic.
• Peter Blegvad interview. Dream Magazine.
• Amateur Peter Blegvad's Amateur - a collection of his writing and art.
• Leviathan Archive
• Full Discography

Dan Cruickshank
Dan Cruickshank signs an autograph at The Holiday & Travel Show 2009 at Birmingham's NEC.
Born	(1949-08-26) 26 August 1949 (age 62)
Residence	Spitalfields, London
Occupation	Art historian Television presenter Author

Dan Cruickshank (born 26 August 1949) is an art historian and BBC television presenter.

Biography[link]

Early life[link]

As a young child he lived for some years in Poland. His father was a journalist based in Warsaw.

Professional career[link]

Cruickshank holds a BA in Art, Design and Architecture ^[1] and was formerly a Visiting Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Sheffield and a member of the London faculty of the University of Delaware. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Artists, a member of the Executive Committee of the Georgian Group and on the Architectural Panel of the National Trust, and is an Honorary Fellow of RIBA.^[1]

He has served as Historic Buildings Consultant for ADAM Architecture since 1999 and has been involved in the repair and restoration of many historical buildings including Spencer House in St James’s, Heveningham Hall in Suffolk and numerous early 18th century houses in Spitalfields and other parts of London.^[2]

His professional publications include London - the Art of Georgian Buildings, The National Trust and Irish Georgian Society Guide to the Georgian Buildings of Britain and Ireland and ‘’Life in the Georgian City’’. He edited the 20th edition of Sir Banister Fletcher’s History of Architecture and Timeless Architecture: a study of key buildings in architectural history and is a contributing editor to Architects’ Journal, The Architectural Review and Perspectives on Architecture.

Television work[link]

Cruickshank began his career with the BBC as consultant, writer and presenter on the architectural programmes One Foot in the Past and The House Detectives. He also contributed films to the Timewatch and Omnibus strands.^[3]

In 2001 he wrote and presented the series Invasion in which he examined attempts and plans to invade Britain and Ireland over the years by exploring coastal fortresses and defensive structures around the coast of the country to discover their military heritage.

Further series included Britain's Best Buildings examining architecturally - or culturally-significant buildings in Great Britain, Under Fire visiting museums and buildings in Afghanistan, Iraq and Israel to see how recent warfare has affected the country's historic artefacts, and What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us focusing on the scientific, technological and political changes of the 19th century.

In 2003, Cruickshank presented a documentary entitled Towering Ambitions: Dan Cruickshank at Ground Zero following the debate and discussion that led to the selection of Daniel Libeskind's design for the World Trade Center site in New York City; while in 2005 he presented a documentary on the Mitchell and Kenyon collection — rolls of nitrate film shot in the early 20th century, depicting everyday life in Britain, which were discovered in 1994 in Blackburn.

Perhaps his greatest success to date came with Around the World in 80 Treasures, charting Cruickshank's five-month trip around the world to visit eighty man-made artefacts or buildings that he has selected, in order to chart the history of mankind's civilisation. A BBC television series and book, first broadcast in 2005.

In 2006, Cruickshank presented Marvels of the Modern Age, a series focusing on the development of modernism in design, from Greek and Roman architecture, to Bauhaus and the present.

Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture, a 2008 series in which he travelled around the world visiting what he considered to be the world's most unusual and interesting buildings.

In 2010, he embarked on a 3 part series on the history of the railways in Britain for National Geographic TV channel, including visits to Chester to examine the events surrounding the Dee bridge disaster of 1847, and Manchester for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway which opened in 1830. The series is titles "Great Railway Adventures" and appeared on television in the spring of 2010.

Personal life[link]

Cruickshank lives in a Georgian house in Spitalfields, London, which he shares with his partner, the painter Marenka Gabeler, and daughter, Isabel, from a previous marriage.^[4]

Filmography[link]

• 1993 One Foot in the Past guest presenter
• 1997-2002 The House Detectives presenter
• 1997 Travels with Pevsner: Norfolk with Dan Cruickshank writer and presenter
• 2001 Timewatch writer and presenter
• 2001 Invasion writer and presenter
• 2002 Omnibus: Dan Cruickshank and the Lost Treasure of Kabul writer and presenter
• 2002 Britain's Best Buildings writer and presenter
• 2003 Under Fire writer and presenter
• 2003 Towering Ambitions: Dan Cruickshank at Ground Zero writer and presenter
• 2003 What the Industrial Revolution Did for Us writer and presenter
• 2005 Around the World in 80 Treasures writer and presenter
• 2005 The Lost World of Mitchell & Kenyon presenter
• 2005 Egyptian Journeys with Dan Cruickshank writer and presenter
• 2006 The Lost World of Friese-Greene
• 2006 Betjeman & Me presenter
• 2006 Marvels of the Modern Age writer and presenter
• 2006 The Lost World of Tibet presenter
• 2006 Britain's Best Buildings writer and presenter
• 2008 Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture writer and presenter
• 2009 Cruickshank On Kew The Garden That Changed The World writer and presenter
• 2009 The Art of Dying writer and presenter
• 2010 Great Railway Adventures writer and presenter
• 2010 Britain's Park Story writer and presenter
• 2011 The Country House Revealed writer and presenter
• 2012 Brick by Brick: Rebuilding Our Past presenter along with Charlie Luxton

Bibliography[link]

• Cruickshank, Dan, & Colin Amery (12 June 1975). The Rape of Britain. Elek (Paul) (Scientific Books) Ltd.. ISBN 978-0-236-31019-7. 
• Cruickshank, Dan (10 October 1985). National Trust and the Irish Georgian Society Guide to Georgian Buildings of Britain and Ireland. Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrated (hardcover). ISBN 978-0-297-78610-8. 
• Cruickshank, Dan, & Neil Burton (1 March 1990). Life in the Georgian City. Viking Press (hardcover). ISBN 978-0-670-81266-0. 
• Cruickshank, Dan, Tony Rivers, Gillian Darley & Martin Pawley (1 January 1993). The Name of the Room: History of the British House and Home. BBC Books (hardcover). ISBN 978-0-563-36321-7. 
• Cruickshank, Dan (editor) (21 September 1996). Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture (20th edition). Architectural Press (hardcover). ISBN 978-0-7506-2267-7. 
• Cruickshank, Dan (editor) (15 October 2000). Architecture: The Critics' Choice. Aurum Press Ltd (hardcover). ISBN 978-1-85410-720-6. 
• Cruickshank, Dan (editor) (12 October 2001). Invasion: Defending Britain from Attack. Boxtree Ltd. (hardcover). ISBN 978-0-7522-2029-1. 
• Cruickshank, Dan (10 October 2002). The StoryBritain's Best Buildings. BBC Books (hardcover). ISBN 978-0-563-48823-1. 
• Cruickshank, Dan, & David Vincent (9 October 2003). Under Fire. BBC Books (hardcover). ISBN 978-0-563-48768-5. 
• Cruickshank, Dan (8 March 2004). The Royal Hospital Chelsea: The Place and the People. Third Millennium Publishing (hardcover). ISBN 978-1-903942-27-7. 
• Cruickshank, Dan, Nicola Jackson & Ricky Burdett (6 July 2004). Building the BBC: A Return to Form. Wordsearch Communications (paperback). ISBN 978-1-86000-221-2. 
• Cruickshank, Dan, & Steven Brindle (25 August 2005). Brunel: The Man Who Built the World. Weidenfeld & Nicolson (hardcover). ISBN 978-0-297-84408-2. 
• Cruickshank, Dan (17 February 2005). Around the World in Eighty Treasures. Weidenfeld & Nicolson (hardcover). ISBN 978-0-297-84399-3. 
• Cruickshank, Dan (3 April 2008). Adventures In Architecture. Weidenfeld & Nicolson (hardcover). ISBN 978-0-297-84444-0. 
• Cruickshank, Dan (24 November 2009). The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital. Random House (hardcover). ISBN 978-1-84794-537-2. 

References[link]

External links[link]

• Dan Cruickshank at the Internet Movie Database
• Cruickshank's comments on visiting Iraq, post-U.S. invasion (BBC)
• Cruickshank's article on visiting Jam minaret in Afghanistan (The Guardian)
• Britain's Best Buildings (BBC)
• What The Industrial Revolution Did For Us (Open University)
• The Lost World of Friese-Greene on the BBC
• Works by or about Dan Cruickshank in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Dan Cruickshank Book List and Interview
• Dan Cruickshank reflects on his student flat in Bloomsbury