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The 3 National Trust properties in Bucks and Berks with controversial links to colonialism and slavery

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THREE of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire s most historic buildings features in a National Trust report about links to colonialism and slavery.
The report titled The Connections between Colonialism and Properties now in the Care of the National Trust was first published last September.
Two historical buildings in Berkshire are named in the document, including Ashdown House and Basildon Park.
Cliveden House in Taplow, Buckinghamshire also appears on the document.
Dr Sally-Anne Huxtable, Head Curator, National Trust said: From the sixteenth century, merchants had sought increasingly to consolidate their socio-economic and political status by acquiring country estates and marrying their children into the landed classes. ....

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The 3 National Trust properties in Bucks and Berks with controversial links to colonialism and slavery

The 3 National Trust properties in Bucks and Berks with controversial links to colonialism and slavery
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Oxfordshire authors shortlisted for Romantic Novel Awards

TWO Oxfordshire authors are in with the chance of winning an award for their recently published love stories.
Romantic novelists Nicola Cornick and Abbie Greaves have been shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists Association s (RNA) 2021 Romantic Novel Awards.
The winners will be presented by actor and presenter Larry Lamb in a digital event on Monday, March 8.
Ms Greaves is one of six finalists in The Katie Fforde Debut Romantic Novel Award category with her novel The Silent Treatment, published by Century, Cornerstone.
She was inspired to write the book after reading an article about a man in Japan who had not spoken to his wife for twenty years. ....

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Oxfordshire authors shortlisted for Romantic Novel Awards

Oxfordshire authors shortlisted for Romantic Novel Awards
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Wessex holidays: The joys of exploring the unspoilt landscapes of Hardy country

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Looking out at a single-track country lane over unspoilt downland, I m struggling to see any signs of human habitation. And yet I am barely 20 miles south of Oxford, home to 150,000 people.
In a memorable scene in Jude The Obscure, the title character of Thomas Hardy s novel has his first sight of the dreaming spires of Christminster (Oxford) from a spot close to where I am parked. Hardy s grandmother lived in the nearby village of Fawley, and the stonemason who dreams of being a scholar is given the surname Fawley in the book.
Jude couldn t wait to leave his village and head to his nearest university town, but I go in the opposite direction as often as I can. ....

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