News – Magna Carta, Cornelia Funke, Elections, Imber and JMW Turner

The Police and Crime Commissioner election roadshow is visiting Salisbury on Tuesday, October 23. It will be outside the Guild Hall – Latest News | Wiltshire Council

Details of the ‘three great services which celebrate Advent, Christmas and Epiphany’ at Salisbury Cathedral are now on the Big Church’s website – Recent Press Releases – Salisbury Cathedral

Artsmonkey has a nice piece about Imber, the village on Salisbury Plain that was taken over by the Army – Seven Miles from anywhere… | Artsmonkeys Blog

There’s a new ‘work club’ starting at Bemerton Health Centre – Bemerton Heath – Work Club to Start at Centre

Salisbury City are running coaching days during half term – Coaching-Days-Oct-2012-Flyer-with-Promo.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Salisbury’s Member of Parliament John Glen has written an article for the ‘Conservative Home’ website about Ed Miliband’s conference speech John Glen MP: Rhetoric vs Reality, or why Miliband’s speech will be forgotten Comment[2]

Continuing with politics, David Cameron failed to remember that ‘Magna Carta’ means ‘Great Charter’ when he was ‘tested’ by the American chat-show host David Letterman last week. The best remaining copy of the Charter is in the Chapter House of Salisbury Cathedral. It’s worth seeing – Magna Carta – Salisbury Cathedral

Cornelia Funke’s book ‘Ghost Knight’ is now available. I finished reading it today and I enjoyed it very much. I’ll perhaps go into more details in a future post, but I’ve started working on an ‘extended glossary’ giving a bit more detail on the locations and historical characters. This will eventually show up on the Cornelia Funke’s Ghost Knight page

Finally, I found this while I was looking for something else – it’s a pencil drawing of the Poultry Cross by Turner. It shows the old ball shaped turret rather than the more church-like top to the structure that we’re familar with today. It’s very sketch-y. You wouldn’t want it on your living room wall, but it’s worth clicking through to have a look – ‘Salisbury: The Poultry Cross, with the Tower of St Thomas’s Church’, Joseph Mallord William Turner | Tate

Footnotes

1. Chris Talbot [CC-BY-SA-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons [↩]
2. I’m not arguing with what Mr Glen says, but I had a think about this. I can only really remember four conference speeches :
   - Mrs Thatcher saying ‘the Lady’s not for turning’
   - Tony Blair when he was sweating a lot
   - Neil Kinnock discussing why he was the first person in his family to go to University
   - Neil Kinnock, again, arguing with the Liverpool Militants

   I wonder whether conference speeches make more impression on others than they do on me?
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