Month: September 2021
24 September 2021
Laurence Sterne’s Chair returns to Shandy Hall
When Robert Athol, the Archivist at Jesus College Cambridge, was looking in the storerooms for a suitable seat for his office, he pulled out a likely-looking 18th century chair. On closer examination, he found a brass plaque on the back, inscribed ‘Hic sedebat Laurentius Sterne’ (‘Here used to sit Laurence Sterne’). Later he uncovered the […]
20 September 2021
Amazing relic from Shandy Hall tree
“Gathered from an aged tree in the garden at Shandy Hall . . . 26 July 1854”. Amazing relic from the sweet chestnut killed by lightning in 1911, but still here in Shandy Hall gardens. A leaf pressed by Rev. William Nichols in a copy of Sterne’s works of 1783. Thanks to Edward Bayntun-Coward for […]
