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THE “Friend” is known for its warmth, kindness and supportive attitude. That approach is evident throughout the long history of your magazine. We have always repored on advances in science and treatme

Road and rail, both of which need a little work

Letter of the week In hindsight… YOUR ...

LOOKING back through the long history of the “Friend” can give us so many incredible insights on so many aspects life in the past. It is an invaluable journal of record. Through our fiction and featur

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

If I can’t send my old unwanted items to a charity shop, I get a great sense of satisfaction if I can turn them into something new rather than throw them out into landfill. I love giving these old ite