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Described by John Clare as ‘Eden in such an hour’ and ‘the weake
Night and day: photographer Jamie Russell managed to ...
...yet no matter how far you travel, some things never change, remembers Caro Giles
How Chaucer reshaped English poetry
August’s nature marker – the swifts’ quiet exit As August unfolds, the familiar cries of swifts begin to fade. By mid-month, they’ve left for Africa – no fuss, just gone. It’s one of those subtle shif
B ecause it’s the school summer holidays, it’s ...
Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro spent time in London, but it took James McNeill Whistler to act as artistic bridge with Britain and the ‘sweetened’ Impressionism of Jules Bastien-Lepage to inspire most homegrown painters, says Caroline Bugler