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Book Review: Global Bunyan and Visual Art
Global Bunyan and Visual Art: Angelica Duran: Bloomsbury Academic – Bloomsbury Review by Sally Heard and Caroline Alcalay This book examines Bunyan as a foundational English author and his legacy in terms of the artistic forms it inspired. With contributions from sixteen academics, professors and curators, it is a comprehensive scholarly exploration of Bunyan’s visual Continue reading
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The First Dissenters’ Marriage at the Old Bunyan Meeting in Bedford
The following post was kindly written and shared by Foster Hill Road Cemetery, Bedford This story is based on a report which appeared in the Bedfordshire Mercury on 22nd July 1837. On a Tuesday morning, 18th July 1837, Bedford found itself unusually animated. Long before the appointed hour, people began gathering in Mill Street, drawn Continue reading
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Trails, Tours and Monuments
John Bunyan’s life story is rooted in the landscape of Bedford and Bedfordshire. Not only that, his most famous book, The Pilgrim’s Progress takes his lively imagination into the buildings and fields he knew so well.So our town and countryside are full of Bunyan trails. You can visit his birthplace, and the site of the Continue reading