Ron Creer, deputy head responsible for staff development at John Ruskin School, a comprehensive in Coniston, Cumbria, said all eligible staff in his school had applied.

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His writings inspired other figures, such as John Ruskin and Beatrix Potter, to take up the role of defender and to protest against reservoirs, afforestation and, more recently, wind farms.

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The English, led by John Ruskin, were leading reactionaries.

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The Victorian sage John Ruskin helped invent the modern cult of the craftsman: he was both an idealist and an aesthete, and he argued that miserable workers produced miserable work, and vice versa.

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Upstream of the Ecole, John Ruskin and William Morris's Arts and Crafts movement gave early inspiration to the Nancy creators, who later attained a measure of American notoriety via the 1893 Chicago Universal Exhibition.

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At a time when Dickens was documenting the shocking plight of the poor in contemporary Britain, the village had a unique egalitarian identity that attracted important figures to speak at the Hall, including Benjamin Disraeli, David Livingstone and John Ruskin.

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