William Blake was a bit of a nut. That’s partly why we like him so much. The great British Romantic artist, whose lifespan (1757-1827) roughly corresponded with that of mad King George III ...

One of Britain’s most renowned heavy metal rock stars has emerged as the unlikely hero in a battle against time to save a ...

Marks of weakness, marks of woe.’ William Blake captures the suffering and oppression on the streets of 18th-century London ...

One day in 1801, when William Blake was living on the Sussex coast, he went on a long country walk when he got into an argument with a thistle. The artist, poet and musician, who experienced ...

The 18th-century cottage where William Blake wrote Jerusalem will become a “site of literary memory” after it secured funding to protect it from being “lost forever”. Blake’s Cottage ...

You may know William Blake as a poet, or even as #38 in the BBC’s 2002 poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. But did you know that Blake was also an artist and print maker who made illuminated ...

The Blake Cottage Trust A dilapidated English cottage rented by William Blake, the lauded 18th-century Romantic poet, is about to get a much-needed makeover. Eventually, after crews finish ...

London by William Blake was published in 1794. It tells the story of a speaker walking through the city of London and noticing suffering all around them. London was published in Blake's poetry ...

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The Trust announced this month that it is seeking to raise £3 million via a JustGiving crowdfunding page to save the former abode of the celebrated poet, artist and mystic William Blake in ...