Wednesday 3rd April 2.00.pm-3.30 pm. ‘Translating Foreign Poetry’ with HH Richard Hamilton. Dick Hamilton was nine when he translated a LaFontaine fable from French verse into English verse. Since then he has dabbled in Spanish and  Medieval French. He will discuss this while quoting from famous translators who handled Ancient Greek, Chinese, Arabic and even ... Read more

The ‘wandering musician’ is a traditional subject of art and literature. Christian Dietrich’s painting of 1745 characteristically shows a fiddler and a bagpipe player busking in front of an inn. This way not only is the connection between travelling and making a living readily established but also attributed to the musicians no less than their ... Read more