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When COUNTRY LIFE’s Henry Avray Tipping spotted a 17th-century four poster languishing in a Herefordshire attic in 1911, he set off a chain of events that saw the bed leave its ancestral home and land at The Met in New York

Arundel Castle, West Sussex

A clock that first struck the hour as ...

Does a newly found Nicholas Hilliard miniature portray Shakespeare’s patron the Earl of Southampton?

Marie Antoinette’s passion for furniture and genius for bagatelles, however evanescent their purpose, filled the French royal palaces with beauty and charm, as Matthew Dennison reveals

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