Prized Possessions on display
Dutch seventeenth-century paintings by some of the finest masters of the ‘Golden Age’ from National Trust collections around the country are now on display together for the first time, at the Holburne ...
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Nigel Heath samples island life on The Scillys
The first tourists arrived on the Isles of Scilly, off the tip of Cornwall, back in the 1760’s during the reign of George III when an enterprising Captain Frank Tregarthen had a bright idea. He ...
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Andrew Silk visits the Vendée region of France Dusseldorf in Germany; Mon Saint-Michel in France; Utrecht in the Netherlands; Leeds in West Yorkshire and Porto-Vecchio in Corsica. Add to this list Noi ...
Windrush: Songs in a Strange Land
Seventy years ago the Empress Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks in Essex, carrying hundreds of Caribbean migrants to Britain. Marking this significant anniversary, the British Library is staging a new ...