LS Lowry is arguably England’s greatest artist. He painted a subject area that no one had ever painted before, the aftermath of the Industrial Revolution, and became popular with the general public to

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Tom Stoppard Indian InkHampstead Theatre, until February 7 History can turn on a style of painting. Paintings can also be emissaries from one age to the next, clues in the puzzle of life, endlessly in

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This early 19th-century cottage in Padstow, owned by Jess and Ash Alken-Theasby, has lived a long and varied life. ‘It was originally a little fishing cottage, but it’s had several interesting uses si