The countryside is host to not only rural ways of living but also history embedded in large houses and mansions built by or for leading lights of the es.
CW: Detailed descriptions of eating disorders. At Oxford we socialise through college formals, balls, crew dates, welfare teas and so much more. For those of us who have a history of disordered eating, this can prove pretty anxiety-inducing. Not to mention, with the highly anticipated June 21st rapidly approaching and the social eating that will come with this, the pressure to get the perfect body is more extreme than ever.
Jaya Rana discusses the inefficiency of Oxford s support system for students with eating disorders
Monday 22 February 2021
Front exterior of Ham House in 2016 with Coade stone statue of Father Thames, by John Bacon the elder, in the foreground
Courtesy of the National Trust
For nearly 350 years, a portrait of the 16th-century aristocrat Sir John Maitland of Thirlestane (1543-1595) hung in a dark corner in the Long Gallery at Ham House. To the astonishment of art historians, this innocuous portrait of a somewhat forgotten figure Maitland, who was the Lord Chancellor of Scotland under King James VI was concealing a centuries-lost portrait of Mary Stuart, colloquially known as Mary, Queen of Scots (1542 – 1587).
Portrait of John Maitland from Ham House being prepared for work at the conservation studio in Kent
A £3 million gift to the National Trust will help it conserve historic objects ranging from Samurai armour to a sixteenth century portrait with a secret, the charity has said.
The gift from American charity the Royal Oak Foundation, which raises support for the National Trust in the US, will help five years of conservation work and protect more than a hundred historic artworks, the Trust said.
It will fund work mainly based at the charity’s specialist conservation studio at Knole, in Kent.
Some of the first objects to benefit from the funding include an oil painting of Sir John Maitland, from Ham House, in London, which is in need of conservation work including removal of varnish and overpaint.