Guy Stagg

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Guy Stagg

@GuyStagg

Writer and walker / Books: The World Within (2025), The Crossway (2018) / Words in @FT @spectator @TheTLS / Agent: @RCWlitagency

Katılım Ağustos 2024
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Guy Stagg
Guy Stagg@GuyStagg·
@BremenBod @PaulinusOfTrier Certainly not Oxford Movement plan. My point was that these ornate churches often built in working class neighbourhoods where a substantial minority of the population was non-conforming. AC offered more dramatic contrast than evangelical Anglicanism.
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Ross Ahlfeld ☧
Ross Ahlfeld ☧@BremenBod·
@PaulinusOfTrier @GuyStagg certainly a link between popular piety and beautiful liturgy appeal to working classes while too often middle classes seek a kind of activist non-religious religion. 100% true ritualists were forced into slums. I'm not sure they were working class, Pusey was the son of a Viscount
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Guy Stagg@GuyStagg·
St Cuthbert's in Earl's Court has an astonishingly ornate carved wooden reredos. Impossible to convey in an image. Made me realise Anglo-Catholicism was not just a romantic response to industrialism, but also an attempt to win back working classes from the non-conforming churches
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@ruby_dunn01 St John the Baptist Holland Road is another stunner, their reredos looks like an Orthodox iconostasis.
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Ruby Dunn@ruby_dunn01·
@GuyStagg Absolutely gorgeous and utterly cavernous church building!
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Andrew Cusack@cusackandrew·
Gonna rebrand as ‘bookſeller’
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Kit Wilson@kitwilsonwriter·
Sun licks
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Guy Stagg@GuyStagg·
@DemocritusSr From what I could tell, the current building was undergoing some kind of renovation. Rooms all empty.
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Democritus Sr
Democritus Sr@DemocritusSr·
@GuyStagg Nice photo. One should like to be able to be there. Your experience has a narrative arc, and a classic narrative at that: to have felt you (or your double) have lived some place, to experience it as a lost realm, by chance to come upon the now disused building, proof of the past.
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Guy Stagg
Guy Stagg@GuyStagg·
Long been enchanted by this photograph of Sonia Brownell / Orwell in the Horizon offices (apparently dating from the final day of the magazine's publication). Today, by chance, I walked past the building where it was taken:
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Guy Stagg@GuyStagg·
Delighted to be reminded of the role that the Eton Chronicle played in Captain Hook's life of piracy.
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Guy Stagg@GuyStagg·
@Scholars_Stage The list of Nobel laureates from the early C20th is helpful here. Sure, there's Hamsun, Yeats, Mann ... but also Rudolf Cristoph Eucken? World-famous French authors like Romain Rolland and Anatole France now barely read. Interestingly, Bergson is having a minor revival.
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T. Greer
T. Greer@Scholars_Stage·
This is a very good thought experiment. Who are the five authors that most 20th c writers have read but most 21st c writers have not? What about 19th c writers?
Jem Bloomfield@jembloomfield

Have been reading "Kim" this last couple of weeks, and was reminded of the scholar who told me that Kipling was the author whom most twentieh-century writers had read, but most twenty-first century readers haven't. She put it better than that, but it's a good point.

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Guy Stagg@GuyStagg·
Excellent article on the legacy of Anglo-Catholicism. Also recommend Geoffrey Faber's Oxford Apostles, a surprisingly gripping narrative account of the main figures in the movement.
Mehmet Çiftçi@mehmet_y_c

I am honoured that an article of mine has just been published in @thelampmagazine Give it a read if you want to know more the legacy of the Oxford Movement and about what happened to those who chose not to follow in Newman's footsteps. Here are the opening paragraphs ⬇️

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Guy Stagg@GuyStagg·
Strongly agree with this sentiment, although my favourite entry in this series - Jonathan Meades on Worcestershire - has not been uploaded to iplayer.
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Guy Stagg@GuyStagg·
Beautiful Bath.
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Guy Stagg@GuyStagg·
Delighted to be delivering the Keene Lecture at Chelmsford Cathedral on Tuesday evening (3rd March). The series is titled 'Wrestling with God' - I will be discussing the remarkable lives of Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Jones and Simone Weil: chelmsfordcathedral.org.uk/events/event/k…
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Guy Stagg@GuyStagg·
@MinooFramroze Alas, another entry in the library of Minoo's unwritten books, alongside the critical comparison of Powell's Dance and Spenser's Faerie Queene.
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Tim Stanley
Tim Stanley@timothy_stanley·
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes is an exhilarating, perspective-changing book, occasionally very funny. This bit on the stigma of being a writer in a poor family in the early 20thC is pure Mike Leigh.
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Sarah Yáñez-Richards@SarahYanezR·
How it started How It’s going.
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