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My Favourite Painting Alison Weir
‘This painting evokes the beauty and mystery of an English summer. It has a haunting quality, enhanced by the juxtaposition of light and shade. The dense trees appear to overwhelm the players: there is something almost sinister about them. The painti
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Athena
FOR the Frontispiece of COUNTRY LIFE on July 3, 1920, Mrs Edward Hussey was not photographed in a studio, but at her home, seated on a balustrade overlooking the ruins of Scotney Castle, Kent. There was a good reason for this departure; the architect
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Walking With Giants
BENEATH Plymouth’s Royal Citadel are two carvings of giants, a Cerne Abbas in duplicate. Their extra-ordinary story can be found within the weighty tomes of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s The History of the Kings of Britain, albeit eclipsed by the sexier leg

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