Author: Chris Pearson
24 November 2021
New Plinth for Laurence Sterne
Rounding the corner in the Garden Room at Shandy Hall, one comes face to face with Laurence Sterne, or the nearest likeness to him that we have. The marble bust, sculpted by Joseph Nollekens, had for too long been standing on an unworthy support. Earlier this year, stone-carver Peter Coates, who has worked with 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 […]
6 August 2021
‘Zounds!’: Tristram Shandy’s rude bits
Key-holes: ‘the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.’ “Shandy Hall, and what we found there.” Article by Andrew Green after a visit to see Katrin Moye’s exhibition at Shandy Hall.
8 June 2021
Alas Poor Yorick! The Reburial of Sterne’s skull
On This Day 8th June in 1969, the skull and femur of Laurence Sterne were reinterred at Coxwold, outside the church where he once preached. The bones were rescued from their original grave in London as the site was to be built over. Sterne had become his alter ego. Alas Poor Yorick!
29 September 2020
Death of ‘tristram shandy’, pauper 19 September 1786
19 Sept 1786 On this day died “tristram shandy”, a tiny baby taken into St Martin’s Workhouse, London on 11 Sept 1786 St Martin’s Workhouse registers St. Martin’s Pauper Biographies Project
