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Rhodes s survival shows a muscular approach to the culture wars can pay dividends
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Wax Heads from the House of Wax were auctioned off
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Would you like to see the world’s largest private collection of model soldiers? A world-famous embroidery by a fisherman artist or the world’s longest continuously operating radar site? England’s last town gas works ? If so, you’re in luck – as they can all be found in Norfolk.
See shells - Small but perfectly formed, like many of its beautiful exhibits, the Shell Museum at Glandford, near Holt, is the oldest purpose-built museum in Norfolk. Its exquisite jewel of a building is set close to a ford through the pretty river Glaven, and houses an impressive seashell collection plus fossils, local archaeological finds and a world-famous embroidery by a fisherman artist. It reopens on Tuesday, May 18.
500 years since Duke left Thornbury Castle, never to return
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The portrait of Catherine de Medici with her children, made in the workshop of Francois Clouet, has returned to Horace Walpole s Strawberry Hill after being auction almost two centuries ago © Kilian O Sullivan
One of Horace Walpole’s treasures has returned to Strawberry Hill, his fantasy miniature Medieval palace on the banks of the Thames in West London, almost two centuries after the writer and collector’s possessions were scattered in an auction so spectacular that charabanc excursions were organised from central London for bidders and the merely curious.
The portrait of Catherine de Medici with four of her ten children, made in 1561 in the workshop of the French court painter Francois Clouet, is the only surviving contemporary image of one of the most powerful women in Europe. By the date of the painting she was effectively the monarch, as regent for her son Charles the boy king encircled by her arm after the death of her husband Henry II of France
Clodagh Finn: It’s a duel to the death with arrogance, not just wallpaper
Nothing offends quite like a politician’s swaggering hubris and sense of superiority Carrie Symonds and British prime minister Boris Johnson, who have been caught up in wallpapergate.
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To my shame, I googled Lulu Lytle, the designer behind the lavish refurbishment of British prime minister Boris Johnson’s Downing Street flat because I simply could not visualise gold wallpaper that costs £900 a roll.
If it is crass to spend more than seven times your budget on ostentatious décor at a time when so many are struggling, it is equally crass to gawp, but then lockdown has sharpened our obsession with interiors. More than that, it has made us feel somehow entitled to snoop around the homes of politicians because the private sphere is regularly on view, partially at least, thanks to the prying lens of Zoom.
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