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Sarah Greenwood
Jan 11, 20213 min read
Becoming Bridgerton
After the turkey, chocolates and mince pies comes lusciously escapist TV and this year, for country house lovers, the outstanding...
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Sarah Greenwood
Feb 25, 20204 min read
Muslim sultans at Adlington
a wall painting at Adlington Hall ...which chronicles our relationship with the Ottoman sultans - not entirely what you expect from a countr
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Sarah Greenwood
Nov 26, 20193 min read
George Eliot: where it all began
Without Sir Roger and Arbury, Mary Ann Evans might never have become George Eliot at all and I couldn’t be more pleased to discover a close
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Sarah Greenwood
Nov 19, 20192 min read
Six: I'm Lovin' a New Musical Genre
Loud, energetic, irreverent and, yes, sparkly, London’s new musical Six is just what all of us need on a damp winter’s evening. It might be
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Sarah Greenwood
Sep 23, 20193 min read
Thomas Cook: demise of a fashion leader
Not all early Thomas Cook tours were a success. Perhaps weary travellers returning after cancelled holidays can console themselves with the
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Sarah Greenwood
Sep 12, 20193 min read
Myth or reality – does it matter?
Does it matter that they are brought to Rosslyn by a popular novel of dubious literary merit or that at Tintagel visitors care more about ro
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Sarah Greenwood
Aug 28, 20193 min read
Bring back red squirrels!
Perhaps we can look forward to a day when red squirrels bring their charm once more to every part of the country but it needs the vigilance
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Sarah Greenwood
Aug 15, 20193 min read
Happy birthday, Napoleon!
It’s Napoleon’s birthday! Light the candles this 15 August. Why is this important? Because, in Britain, we are still just a little bit obses
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Sarah Greenwood
Jul 29, 20193 min read
Top 6 Hidden Treasure Troves
Things get lost in big houses - put away by one generation and forgotten by the next. Just occasionally, a chest in the attics reveals an ex
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Sarah Greenwood
Jul 2, 20193 min read
What's the problem with moths?
Elizabeth I employed eight men to beat her furs all day to make sure they didn’t get chomped. More specifically, in 1598 it took six men fo
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Sarah Greenwood
Jun 24, 20193 min read
Not so shabby little Shibden: Anne Lister at home for Gentleman Jack
Something very special is going on in the real life story of Anne Lister of Halifax in the BBC’s production of Gentleman Jack now on BBC...
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Sarah Greenwood
May 27, 20193 min read
Can Cambridge dodge the slave trade?
Interesting that the University of Cambridge is investigating its links with slavery. Are they hoping to be exonerated by the fact that...
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Sarah Greenwood
May 10, 20194 min read
Who was Saexa, the King of Bling?
It’s been a week for royal princes, first with the birth of baby Archie to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who is destined to spend much...
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Sarah Greenwood
May 3, 20192 min read
6 Gardens to visit for National Gardening Week
The Royal Horticultural Society has declared this Britain’s National Gardening Week from Monday 29 April - Sunday 5 May. Why? It's the...
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Sarah Greenwood
Apr 16, 20192 min read
Nôtre Dame burns
Interesting how quickly the tone of the reports of the fire at Nôtre Dame cathedral in Paris has changed. The fire took hold about 4.30...
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Sarah Greenwood
Apr 9, 20192 min read
English Heritage centralising services
I heard an amusing story this week about the way English Heritage now organise their services. Our house had a chilly morning yesterday,...
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Sarah Greenwood
Apr 2, 20195 min read
Kettle's Yard - house or gallery?
I've just visited Kettle’s Yard, a house in Cambridge, once home to the art curator Jim Ede and left by him to the University in 1966....
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Sarah Greenwood
Mar 14, 20192 min read
Did Victorian gents do science?
It’s British Science Week and I have just been sent an image of a microscope that set me thinking. The microscope is at Farringford House...
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Sarah Greenwood
Mar 7, 20193 min read
An icon for International Women's Day 2019.
If you want an icon for International Women's Day in the UK in 2019 you couldn’t do better than Nancy Astor. Born an American, she met...
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Sarah Greenwood
Feb 26, 20194 min read
Don't ignore the art of miniatures.
I’ve been writing about miniatures recently for Historic Houses. Seek out the exhibition ‘Elizabethan Treasures’ at the National Portrait...
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