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Arts

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Country Life

A question of inheritance

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

Country Life

Humble, grumble, toil and scumble

From George Stubbs’s golden vision of the labourer’s place in society to Ford Madox Brown’s heroically monumental celebration of manual labour, artists gave individual interpretations of work, as Michael Hall reveals

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Arts

Review of reviews: Books

All About History

The victorian female detective

Delve into the hidden world of 19th century crime-fighting women with Professor Sara Lodge

Homes & Antiques

The culture shapers: powerful women

Exaggerating her beetling monobrow and wispy dark moustache in self-portraits, the artist Frida Kahlo was a female force to be reckoned with, unafraid to pour her heart onto the canvas. Only last autu

The Week UK

Arts

Review of reviews: Books

Country Life

A question of inheritance

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

Country Life

Humble, grumble, toil and scumble

The Week UK

Arts

Review of reviews: Books

All About History