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Exhibitions / The brilliance of Cicely Mary Barker

Exhibitions /					 													 						The brilliance of Cicely Mary Barker
20.01.2025 10

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Ysenda Maxtone Graham

The brilliance of Cicely Mary Barker

The brilliance of Cicely Mary Barker
16.01.2025 6

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Basket case / Is anything still cheap?

14.01.2025 20

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Basket case / Is anything still cheap?

12.01.2025 30

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Basket case / Is anything still cheap?

09.01.2025 20

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Exhibitions / Tirzah Garwood just isn’t as good as her husband

Tirzah Garwood, wife of the more famous Eric Ravilious, is having a well-deserved moment in the sun, benefiting from this era of equality in which...

30.12.2024 1

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Books / The dreadful fate of Queen Victoria’s granddaughters

‘Cela me revolte,’ wrote Queen Victoria in her diary in 1894 when her adored granddaughter Alexandra of Hesse announced her engagement to the...

28.12.2024 10

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Ysenda Maxtone Graham

Where do you stand on ‘I was sat’?

Perhaps because more and more BBC radio programmes are being broadcast from Salford, the whole of Britain is getting used to hearing multiple uses...

20.12.2024 1

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Books / ‘Carried away by those Russians’ – the dreadful fate of Queen Victoria’s granddaughters

‘Cela me revolte,’ wrote Queen Victoria in her diary in 1894 when her adored granddaughter Alexandra of Hesse announced her engagement to the...

16.12.2024 10

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Ysenda Maxtone Graham

Books / ‘Carried away by those Russians’ – the dreadful fate of Queen Victoria’s granddaughters

‘Cela me revolte,’ wrote Queen Victoria in her diary in 1894 when her adored granddaughter Alexandra of Hesse announced her engagement to the...

16.12.2024 10

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Ysenda Maxtone Graham

Fame fatigue / Gregg Wallace was no national treasure

To call Gregg Wallace a ‘national treasure’, as some did after his fall from grace last week, was inaccurate. Just because he is (or was) very...

03.12.2024 5

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What’s gone wrong at Winchester Cathedral?

The Dean of Winchester, the Very Revd Catherine Ogle, has announced that she will be retiring on 1 May 2025. The timing is interesting, as news of...

12.11.2024 1

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The toddlers being prepared for the seven-plus exam

The feverishness of the private prep-school market in London has reached such a pitch that children in the nursery class at Eaton House Belgravia...

05.09.2024 1

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Notes on... / The joy of party bags

The perfect, unpretentious, well-constructed party bag was given to guests leaving a recent Hatchards party. It contained a wedge of farmhouse...

29.07.2024 1

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Ysenda Maxtone Graham