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He may never have existed in real life, but, as he approaches his 9
On the face of it, the character of John Steed, played by Patrick Macnee in the ITV series The Avengers, was an unlikely icon for the swinging 60s. In a decade obsessed with youth, modernity and worki
Quaint relic or symbol of bad taste, garden gnomes have gone in and out of fashion. They are generally thought to have originated in Switzerland and Germany in the late 18th century. Then, in 1841, a
Take a good dollop of Victorian innovation, add a fistful of classics, season it liberally with creative genius and you’ll cook up the very British art of literary illustration. Carla Passino charts its history and discovers that it still thrives
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