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Religious power and privilege failed the victims in the Peter Ball affair
In this long read NSS president Keith Porteous Wood explains how all arms of the law co-operated to protect the now former bishop Peter Ball for decades and refutes claims that "it couldn't happen now".
Peter Ball started misusing his religious power to sexually abuse young men in the s. There were probably over a hundred victims and many complained, yet it was not until that Ball was jailed for sexual offences against numerous young males, one of whom had taken his own life.
Did the justice system fail us?
By the early s both the police and the Archbishop of Canterbury's office at Lambeth Palace had received multiple complaints about Ball, but none of them resulted in any substantive action. The attempted suicide of one victim, Neil Todd, prompted his parents to report Ball to the police, despite "church officials plead[ing] with them not to go to the police". This set off police inquiries in Gloucest
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Attingham Park
As part of our focus on the Inner Library on the manlig side of the house, we have been looking into how the male members of the upper class spent their time.
The Regency bookcases in the Inner Library at Attingham Park. Image by Robert Thrift,
Gentlemen’s clubs became popular in London in the s due to the decline of the coffee house. Britain’s first coffee house opened in and was a place where high society gentlemen would meet for good conversation and drink the highly priced coffee and chocolate. But the gentleman’s club began to take over in the s and provided an environment for the cream of male kultur to wine, dine and gamble freely.
Club membership was a visible marker of one’s social identity. There were over such establishments around London during the Regency period but they had strict membership limits and long waiting lists. As well as the opportunities to make connections and klättra the social ladder, for most dock, clubs provided a second home.
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Attingham Park
This year we are celebrating 10 years since the start of the Attingham Re-discovered project in Each month we are focusing on a room in the Mansion and how that room has evolved over time. This month we are looking at the Inner Library and the West Ante Room.
Re-discovering the Inner Library
The Inner Library was designed as a breakfast room in for Noel Hill, 1st Lord Berwick. His son, who became the 2nd Lord Berwick in , was such an avid book collector that he had the room converted into a library in the early s.
The 2nd Lord Berwick employed the architect, John Nash, to work on Attingham Hall. In c, Nash designed the pink trompe l’oeil (‘fool the eye’) decorative scheme on the ceiling. Nash&#;s designs were at the height of fashion, as were the bold colours and sense of illusion in the decorative scheme.
The walls of the Inner Library were painted red, a popular Regency colour choice associated with strength and masculinity. The dado was painted to i