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The New Library, Magdalene College (Magdalene College) has won the Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize for 2022. This exquisitely detailed new study space in Cambridge was designed by Níall McLaughlin Architects. Find out more here: bbc.in/3PqDxd4

A quick history of The Ruskin Society by yours truly ruskinsociety.uk/history-of-the…

Exhibition: Will Carter - Man of Letters. An important retrospective featuring the wide-ranging portfolio of one of Cambridge’s most respected resident artists, including examples of his #calligraphy, #lettercarving, #printing, and #typefaces. magd.cam.ac.uk/events/will-ca…

Cardozo Kindersley Editions are publishing a new book, Words Made Stone. £25, available from kindersleyworkshop.co.uk/shop bit.ly/3WdPd6p (Publication date: 17 February 2023). Please contact Eve Whistler at [email protected] for more information.

We very much look forward to welcoming our members tomorrow at our annual AGM and Birthday Lecture at the Art Workers' Guild. Dr Stuart Eagles Dr Stuart Eagles will be speaking on the subject of St George's Museum in Sheffield, Ruskin's 'Bodleian library' for artisans.

It’s our tradition now to have a bubbly and cakes to celebrate John Ruskin’s birthday. This year, our new committee is busily baking a variety of cakes to be served at our event tomorrow – guess what a cake these ingredients will make?

Congratulations to Dr Stuart Eagles Dr Stuart Eagles & Prof Robert Hewison Ruskin To-Day ('There is no wealth but life') who were awarded an honorary membership of The Ruskin Society. As a token of their status they received a walnut paperweight personally cast from pewter by our chair Dr Marcus Waithe Marcus Waithe

Magdalene Fellow Marcus Waithe has written a book with Honorary Fellow, the letter cutter and typographer Lida Cardozo Kindersley, entitled Words Made Stone: The Craft and Philosophy of Letter Cutting.

The photos show King Charles III receiving a copy from Lida in front of two green slates cut by the Cardozo Kindersley Workshop for a quaker burial ground in Milton Keynes.

I’m looking forward to reading tomorrow at this online event (Friday, 10 March 2023)

Last Saturday, our members were treated to a fascinating joint talk by two cultural historians, Sir Christopher Frayling and Prof. Jeffrey Richards. They considered Ruskin’s often caricatured representation on celluloid, and the ways in which this has affected his reputation.

Magdalene College Library is hiring for two new positions - an Assistant Librarian and a Graduate trainee! Further information and the application forms can be found here: magd.cam.ac.uk/about/vacancie…

Join us for the 2024 AGM and Ruskin’s Birthday Lecture Art Workers' Guild on 17 Feb, 2:30-5pm.✨Sarah Quill, author of Ruskin's Venice: The Stones Revisited, will delve into "Infinite Variety" - exploring Ruskin and the Capitals of the Ducal Palace, Venice.🗓️ #RuskinBirthdayLecture

John Ruskin was born #OTD in 1819. For his centenary, Marcus Waithe wrote an in-depth appraisal of why we still have much to learn from the influential critic and artist about how to really look not just at art, but at the world apollo-magazine.com/john-ruskin-bi…