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Articles
- A lavender water bottle
- A Letter Cabinet
- Bobbins and Lacemaking
- Cowper & Newton Museum Development Officer – Appointment
- Cowper & Newton Museum wins National Lottery support
- Cowper’s fashion accessories
- Cowper’s Pocket Watch – a Musical Movement with Bassoon
- Cowper’s spaniel, Beau
- Handkerchiefs and their ‘flirty’ language
- Honouring the Hares
- Job Vacancy – Heritage Engagement Officer (18th month Heritage Fund Project)
- John Newton Dissenting Minister
- Lace Making
- Mrs Unwin’s Spectacles
- New Donation – Original manuscript letter by John Newton
- Newton’s Straw-work Box
- OLNEY & DISTRICT HISTORY SOCIETY
- Olney Church & John Newton
- Patchwork and Plum Cake – ‘good things’ from Mrs King
- Poor Laws & Workhouses
- Poor Laws – The Roundsman System
- Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service
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- Thank You Heritage Lottery Amazing Grace – Legacies at 250
- The Cowper & Newton Story Begins – 250 years
- The Electrifying Machine
- The History of My Three Hares
- The language of rings: William Cowper and his women friends
- The Olney Militia
- The Olney World Famous Pancake Race
- The Reinterment of John Newton 1893
- William Cowper’s Missing Will
- William Cowper’s Writing Slope
- William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth, 1731-1801
Events
- Build a Miniature Garden
- Build a Miniature Garden
- Heritage Open Day
- Olney and District Local History Day
- Children’s Garden Trail ‘Amazing Animals’
- A Romp With The Georgians
- Family Fun – Easter Trail
- Family Fun – Easter Trail
- Family Fun – Easter Trail
- Family Fun – Easter Trail
- Family Fun – Easter Trail
- Amazing Grace: Legacies & Reflections at 250 Open Day at St Peter & St Paul
- National Gardens Scheme Open Gardens Weekend
- Guided Walk to William Cowper’s Alcove
- Guided walk around Olney – South End
- Jon Bickley and the Invisible Folk Club Band – Folk Tradition & the Olney Hymns
- Guided walk to Lavendon Mill via Clifton Reynes
- Refreshments in the Courtyard
- Refreshments in the Courtyard
- Refreshments in the Courtyard
- Refreshments in the Courtyard
- Refreshments in the Courtyard
- Refreshments in the Courtyard
- Refreshments in the Courtyard
- Refreshments in the Courtyard
- Refreshments in the Courtyard
- Museum and Gardens by Candlelight and Late Night Shopping
- Dickens of a Christmas
- A Georgian Christmas festive display
- Spooky History Walk
- Cowper and Newton Museum Lace Day
- Heritage Open Day
- National Gardens Scheme Open Gardens Weekend
- Quackery & Enlightenment – a journey through Georgian medicine
- Quackery Children’s Trail
- Olney Virtual Walk & Talk
- David Purvis – Art Around Olney Sunday Exhibition
- David Purvis – Art Around Olney Exhibition
- Free Family Time-travellers Trail
Journal
- A Cowper First Edition: Sequel to an Auction at the Museum
- A Portrait and a Nursery Plate
- A Tune Called ‘Cowper’
- An Echo of Cowper in Time of War
- An Important First Edition
- Anne Brontë, William Cowper and the Pursuit of Individual Salvation
- Bibliography: Critical Writing on William Cowper, 1980-2010
- Book Review: John Bugg (ed.), The Joseph Johnson Letterbook
- Book Reviews
- But now we float: Cowper, Air-Balloons, and the Poetics of Flight
- Byron’s Cowper: a Re-appraisal
- Cartogenic Cowper
- Cowper and Berkhamsted: Memories and Memorials
- Cowper and Conversation
- Cowper Away: a Summer in Sussex
- Cowper, Slave Narratives, and the Antebellum American Reading Public
- Cowper’s Importance for George Eliot
- Cowper’s Influence on Jane Austen
- Cowper’s Return Home: Remembering and Working-Through in On the Receipt of My Mother’s Picture
- Cowper’s Task: An Unexpected Reference
- Cowper’s Woodman Illustrated
- Cowper’s ‘The Snail’
- Critical Writing on William Cowper, 2011-2012
- Critical Writing on William Cowper, 2013–2014
- David Higgins: Romantic Englishness
- Detached Cowper and His Critical Eye
- Dr Cotton and the Collegium Insanorum at St Albans
- Editions of the Writings of William Cowper An Annotated Bibliography 1960-2013
- Eighteenth-Century Military Life in Olney
- He swam very strong: Cowper’s ‘The Castaway’ and the Voyage Account Tradition of Maritime Suffering
- How did Cowper Love Women?
- Jane Darcy, Melancholy and Literary Biography, 1640–1816
- John Newton’s Advice on Marriage to John Ryland Jr
- John Wordsworth as Cowper’s ‘Cast-away’
- Lacemakers and Old Songs, in Olney and Elsewhere
- Lyric Sincerity: Cowper and the Sapphic Hymn
- Mark Rutherford Recalls Cowper: A Study of Some Allusions
- Mary A. Favret, War at a Distance: Romanticism and the Making of Modern Warfare
- Milton’s Elegy on the Death of Lancelot Andrewes: Cowper’s Translation
- Neil Curry, William Cowper: A Revaluation
- Recalling Adam’s Dream: A Note on Keats and Cowper
- Richard Arnold, Trinity of Discord. The Hymnal and Poetic Innovations of Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, and William Cowper. New York: Peter Lang,
- Sam Roberts of Weston, Cowper’s faithful attendant
- Simon Watson: An April-Weather Life: A Short Biography of William Cowper, Poet
- Sincerity and Dread in William Cowper’s Conversion Narratives
- Susan Matthews: Blake, Sexuality and Bourgeois Politeness
- Tasking the Mind: Understanding ‘Unstood’ in Cowper’s ‘Yardley Oak’
- Texts on the Wall of Newton’s Study
- The Contrite Heart: Cowper and George Herbert
- The Cowper and Newton Journal, Issue 1, 2011, Editorial
- The Cowper Johnson Archive
- The Evangelical Tradition in Olney in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- The Loop-holes of Retreat: Exploring Cowper’s Letters
- The Olney Hymns
- The Reverend Morley Unwin and his Family
- The Weather House
- The Winner of Sorrow: a Novel by Brian Lynch
- This folio of four pages, happy work! : Cowper and the Newspapers
- Two Curates, Two Baptists, and a Poet: Olney and the Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade
- Victorian Valuations of William Cowper
- We are all brother-journeymen in one shop: John Newton as Pastor
- William and Theadora: An Early Love Affair
- William Cowper and George Romney: Public and Private Men
- William Cowper and the Material World
- William Cowper and William Mason: Poetry, Politics and the Nonsense Club
- William Cowper of the Inner Temple
- William Cowper, Hope, lines 75-110
- William Cowper, The Task, Book VI, The WinterWalk at Noon, lines 57-82
- William Cowper, ‘On the Loss of the Royal George’
- William Cowper, ‘The Poplar-Field’
- William the Conqueror: The Friendship between William Hayley and William Cowper
- ‘Amazing Grace’
Bulletin
- ‘Many a Trembling Chord’: Lady Austen as Muse
- ‘The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy…’ Were they?
- ‘This sad non-identity’: Clare, Cowper and ‘madness’
- A Bust of Cowper
- A Guide through Grief: John Newton’s pastoral care for William Cowper
- A Newly Discovered Letter by John Newton
- A Tune Called Cowper
- Amazing Grace
- Calling William Cowper: A visit to the Cowper and Newton Museum
- Cartogenic Cowper
- Computerised Index to the Olney Hymns
- Conrad Brunstrom, William Cowper: Religion, Satire, Society
- Cowper and his Hares
- Cowper in Sweden
- Cowper’s Garden Progeny
- Cowper’s Woodman Illustrated
- Cowper’s England
- Detached Cowper and his Critical Eye
- How did Cowper Love Women?
- Is the Cowper Collection of National Importance?
- John Higgins of Turvey Abbey
- K.E. Smith, William Cowper: A Reappraisal
- Literary Genes
- Military Life in the Eighteenth Century
- Nature and Religion in the Writings of William Cowper
- Obituary: George Davies (1937-2009)
- Obituary: Sylvia Bull (1946-2009)
- Recalling Adam’s Dream: A note on Keats and Cowper
- Report of an Adjudged Case
- Shaping Grace: The spiritual autobiographies of John Bunyan, John Newton and William Cowper
- Slave Ships
- Tasking the Mind: Understanding ‘unstood’ in Cowper’s ‘Yardley Oak’
- Texts on the Wall of Newton’s Study
- The Bull/Cowper/Newton Connection
- The Cowper Johnson Archive Part 1
- The Cowper Johnson Archive Part 2
- The Evangelical Tradition in Olney in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- The John Newton International Center
- The John Newton Project
- The Lordship of the Manor of Olney
- The Neat and Untidy Cowper. Gavin Hopps and Jane Stabler (eds.), Romanticism and Religion: From William Cowper to Wallace Stevens
- The Olney Hymns
- The Reverend Morley Unwin and his Family
- The Sights of Weston Underwood
- The Summer House Garden
- The Weather House
- Two Curates, Two Baptists, and a Poet: Olney and the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade
- William Cowper as a Prophet for Today?
- William Cowper of the Inner Temple
- ‘Upon the Rack’: George Herbert, William Cowper and the discourse of dis/ability
