A Queer Inheritance: Alternative Histories in the National ...

Without the generosity of one remarkable man, Sir James Roberts, the Brontë Parsonage Museum might never have come to be. Roberts’ own rags-to-riches story sounds like something from a book. He was bo

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IN RURAL COMPTON, SURREY, at the Watt’s Gallery Artists’ Village, the former home and studio of the English artist George Frederic Watts (1817-1904), an outstanding exhibition Women of Influence: The

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