"These guys are having a great time — SO CAN YOU" #eton
(I'm not an Etonian, but Newingtonian does rhyme on purpose)
#eton
Time to start putting the signposts up. Something is coming to Alexandra Gardens in Windsor. 26th July 2025 1st Saturday of the school holidays too. #windsoetonpride #Pride #lgbtqia #windsor #ETON #berkshire #alexandragardens
Türchen 8 öffnet sich und wir stehen - im Jungeninternat. Nicht ganz, aber einen Teil ihrer Kindheit, über die sie schreibt, verbrachte die Autorin tatsächlich Tür an Tür mit dem englischen Elite-College in #Eton, das ihr Vater leitete. Später war sie, wie ihre Cousine Virginia Woolf, Mitglied des #Bloomsbury-Kreises und außerdem Initiatorin des Bloomsbury Memoir Clubs. Viel Vergnügen mit "Kleine Fliegen der Gewissheit" von Molly MacCarthy! (Ü: Tobias Schwartz)
https://www.aviva-verlag.de/programm/kleine-fliegen-der-gewissheit/
*Updated.*
Hello. I joined Friendica in October of 2024, after Facebook closed their Basic Mobile site (not app). I live in New Jersey and am forty-one years old. Some of my interests include studying dandyism, nineteenth-century grammar, Upper Received Pronunciation, British history, and the Regency. I like coffee, tea, wine, nasal snuff, cooking, hot baths, reading British literature, watching nature and historical documentaries, gardening, hot weather, and playing cards and dice. I also love cats. In classical music, I enjoy Baroque through a bit of early Romantic, while in popular, I usually prefer 1950's through 1970's. I love theatre (especially English and Viennese operettas, Edwardian musical comedies), and some Regency/Georgian plays. I prefer antique menswear and accessories. It's my dream to either buy a genuine Edwardian suit or have one commissioned. I love wit, wordplay, and dry humour without vulgarity. My parents are lesbians, and I am a huge gay rights supporter, but I stop short of using singular they and promoting the idea of more than two sexes, though you can certainly lean more towards one while being the other (as I do being a masculine woman), or change from one to the other via hormones, surgery etc. I have been totally blind since I was two months old, due to Retinopathy of Prematurity.
I am happily childfree and am not religious. I hardly ever write about politics. I tend to get along better with people older than I, but I will accept friends twenty-one and over. I have no understanding of chronic illness, anxiety, depression, loneliness, etc. I enjoy hearing about cats, cooking or gardening adventures, antiques, and interesting life stories.
This is my journal. Anyone can read or comment, whether or not he is a member.
dandylover1.dreamwidth.org
#antipolitics #antiquemensware #antiques #BBC #blind #blindness #books #British #Britishliterature #BeauBrummell #cards #cats #childfree #coffee #cooking #classicalmusic #crafts #dandies #dandyism #ClaraNovelloDavies #dice #dinnerparties #documentaries #Dreamwidth #Edwardian #England #English #Eton #Facebook #fashion #food #Friendica #friends #friendship #gayrights #gardening #grammar #highculture #humor #humour #introduction #LordAlvanley #men #MS-DOS #nasalsnuff #nature #NewJersey #NewYork #IvorNovello #oldermen #omnivores #operettas #reading #ReceivedPronunciation #Regency #relationships #seniors #silverfork #singing #singles #tea #theater #theatre #UnitedKingdom #Wales #Windows #writing
I'm in awe right now, but I need some advice. For several years, I've been seeking the book that Beau Brummell used to learn Latin. I know it was Introduction to the Latin Tongue for the use of Youth. There were many different editions, including The famous, but later, Eton Latin Grammar. He attended Eton from 1786 to 1794. I have a digital copy of one published in 1795, wich fits the timeframe perfectly, but it's a mess when trying to read the "full text" with NVDA (my screen reader) or to convert the pdf to text. Likewise, I have one from about 1824-5 that is a reprint of 1795, and though it's a bit clearer, it's still full of errors. The hard copy reprints I've found are all pictures of the originals, not cleanly retyped. Just now, I found an original 1824 edition, and it's in clean condition! I'm quite afraid, because I am totally blind, and in order to read it, I must hold it and turn the pages so that my software can scan it! I can either use my ArX Vision, which I wear on my head, or my Pearl Document Scanning Camera with Openbook. Either way, I would be touching a book that's 200 years old! However, no one seems to have a modern copy that is retyped. All are just pictures of old editions, and when I try to convert the pdfs to txt, or to read the pre-made html versions (all at the Internet Archive), they are full of errors! This would be fine in English, but I'm using the book to learn Latin!
abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetai…
As a side note, here is my post in which I explain my search for a Latin tutor. I have not yet found one. If you think you can help me, please read said post before simply writing that you are a tutor. I am not using modern methods or pronunciation.
dandylover1.dreamwidth.org/768…
Finally, this is the syllabus for the pre-1868 Eton College curriculum that I created after a lot of research. It includes links to the books I plan to use, as well as extras.
dandylover1.dreamwidth.org/994…
#BeauBrummell #books #Brummell #classicaleducation #education #Eton #EtonCollege #Language #Latin #Learning #nineteenthcentury #syllabus #TraditionalEnglishPronunciation #teacher #tutor
"Eton among elite private schools set to cash in on windfall from new VAT rules"
#tax #UK #Education #schools #PrivateSchools #Eton #PrivateEducation
There had to be a sneaky catch didn't there. #Eton start paying #vat now but #claim #money back for the previous 10 years! The start date should be the same on both. This is ridiculous.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/oct/12/eton-among-elite-private-schools-set-to-cash-in-on-windfall-from-new-vat-rules
#privateschool #scam #windfall #HMRC #independentschools
Really, how is this any different from when the Tories are in power? The rich always win and everyone else is ignored.
1 Oct 1440: Henry VI gives a foundation charter to #Eton College Bucks #otd (Loggan) making it almost 600 years old now...
Noch eine Woche! Am 12. September erscheint eine echte Entdeckung aus Bloomsbury: »Kleine Fliegen der Gewissheit« von Molly MacCarthy, erstmals ins Deutsche übersetzt von Tobias Schwartz. https://aviva-verlag.de/programm/kleine-fliegen-der-gewissheit/
#Neuerscheinung #Bloomsbury #MollyMacCarthy #bloomsberries #VirginiaWoolf #readmorewomen #eton #windsor #avivaverlag
Eton College Chapel, East, Buckinghamshire, 1946 - Photochrom Postcard
30 July 1608: b. Thomas Horne, future Headmaster of #Eton College at West Hallam Derbyshire #otd Among others things he translated the #Irish Jesuit William Bathe's 'Ianva linguarvm' or language learning treatise into #English (eebo)
25 July 1561: Richard Bruarne #Hebraist elected Provost of #Eton without Elizabeth I's permission. In the inquiry he was accused of popery, adultery, conjuring with a familiar spirit, Judaizing - by eating a paschal lamb at Eastertime. Queen accepted his resignation in Sept.
Eton set to give 'brick' phones to first years
Studenci Eton zostali zmuszeni do zamiany swoich iPhone’ów na proste telefony Nokia.
Przyszli uczniowie Eton – najsłynniejszej brytyjskiej prywatnej szkoły z internatem, której absolwentami jest wielu premierów tego kraju – zostali poinformowani, że muszą zostawić swoje iPhone’y w domu na cały rok szkolny.
Ich karty SIM zostaną przeniesione do telefonów Nokia, które są zdolne tylko do rozmów telefonicznych i SMS-ów.
W związku z rosnącymi obawami o to, że smartfony mogą odciągać uczniów od nauki, Eton wcześniej wymagało od uczniów oddawania telefonów pod koniec każdego dnia szkolnego.
CBS News donosi jednak, że tegorocznym studentom powiedziano, że ich iPhone’y muszą pozostać w domu. Co ciekawe okazało się, że nie dotyczy to Androidów, bo… „żaden student Eton nie będzie miał raczej telefonu z Androidem”.
Rodzice pierwszorocznych uczniów w Eton zostali poinformowani o zmianach w liście, w którym stwierdzono, że 13-letni uczniowie powinni zabrać swoje inteligentne urządzenia do domu po tym, jak ich karty SIM zostaną przeniesione do telefonów Nokia offline dostarczonych przez szkołę.
Polityka ta zacznie obowiązywać od początku następnego semestru, we wrześniu. Starsi uczniowie nadal podlegają poprzednim zasadom, w tym zakazowi korzystania z telefonów wieczorami.
https://imagazine.pl/2024/07/11/studenci-eton-zmuszeni-do-rezygnacji-z-iphoneow/
Yeah, let's restrict people from technology that could actually help them.
Eton students must swap their iPhones for Nokia dumbphones
https://9to5mac.com/2024/07/10/eton-swap-their-iphones-for-nokia/
10 July 1527: Robert Aldrich Provost of #Eton nominated to the bishopric of Carlisle by Henry VIII #otd He continued to hold Eton till 1547 & was also almoner to Queen Jane Seymour (BM)
One of many reasons why England is a mess. Boarding schools for the so called rich people...
#eton #clique #taxdodging #corruption #brexit #mobbusiness
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/20/business/uk-private-school-fees-labour/index.html
At the end of the interview, Stewart sums up by saying "you get the sense that [#Kwarteng] is very clever". I didn't. I got the sense that he was rather stupid, rather shallow, rather trivial; but very posh.
And I think that the problem at the heart of UK parliamentary politics is that they mistake a posh accent for intelligence.
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