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Picasso's mystery lady
A MYSTERIOUS woman has been discovered A under underneath Picasso's Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto (1901).
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February 19, 2025
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Centuries of starlight
ROYAL MUSEUMS GREENWICH has been awarded a £1.25 million grant from to transform the visitor experience at the Royal Observatory.
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February 19, 2025
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A sense of delight
The Aldourie estate, Inverness-shire The process of stitching together the architectural fabric of a Scottish estate has created an outstanding group of new and restored buildings, as John Goodall explains
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February 19, 2025
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Capital Roman legacy
THE remains of London's original Roman THE remains of London's original Roman development of No 85, Gracechurch Street, London EC3.
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February 19, 2025
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A leap in the dark
The primal play of light and shadow, whether in Leonardo's ever-so-subtle sfumato or Caravaggio's dramatic contrasts, has shaped Western art, as Michael Hall reveals
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February 12, 2025
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Beauty and the blimp
Inflammable airships may be gone, but a new hybrid aircraft, capable of delivering eco-friendly aviation, is set to take to the skies with a bang, finds Charles Harris
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February 12, 2025
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Three wishes for food and farming
Royal hedge planting, the terrible toll on Ukrainian farming and a maiden speech
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February 12, 2025
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Seeing the wood for the trees
Scotland's much-evolved forestry industry has become a focus for clever investors
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February 12, 2025
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Let's fall in love
Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it. Laura Parker finds that, when it comes to creatures mating for life, persistence, patience and a little dad dancing are key to success
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February 12, 2025
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Back from the dead
THREE Wentworth elm saplings have been planted in the grounds of the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, and on the Highgrove estate in Gloucestershire-29 years after what was thought to be the lastknown Wentworth elm died.
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February 12, 2025
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A man among men
What makes a master? Beloved of the commercial art world, handled warily by art historians, the word has long been opaque. Michael Prodger investigates its many meanings-and discovers that being male confers an unfair advantage
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February 12, 2025
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Unearth one of life's luxuries
Black diamonds are a girl's best friend this Valentine's Day, with Périgord truffle-based skincare from TRUFFE
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February 12, 2025
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Adventure awaits
Spend an unforgettable family holiday on the Benmore Estate and experience some of Scotland's finest wildlife and sporting activities
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February 12, 2025
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Let the art rule the head
Despite being a world leader in everything from jewellery to fashion and music, the UK is failing to nurture creativity at school and in regional centres. Tristram Hunt, director of the V&A Museum, calls for an urgent review
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February 12, 2025
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And that's how it's done
A Narable-and-livestock farm in the CotsAwards, wangiovestock own the combine a commercial French partridge shoot with 'phenomenal' habitat creation and predator control to conserve wild grey partridge, corn buntings and skylarks, has scooped gold at the annual Purdey Awards, now in its 25th year.
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February 12, 2025
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Ferns, battles and strawberry tarts
FIFTY-THREE new gardens have signed up to open for Scoward's Gardens Scheme (SGS) this year, bringing the total to more than 400, with 244 charities and local good causes set to benefit.
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February 12, 2025
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Heart to art
Oskar Reinhart, Switzerland's Samuel Courtauld and a man so driven that he pursued one painting for 30 years, amassed such an extraordinary collection that it fed two museums. Now, a selection of his works goes on show in London
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February 12, 2025
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Light work
Tiffany Daneff discovers how to transform a typically dark London back garden into a light-filled green haven that is always in use
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February 12, 2025
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Trumpets call
HOOP-PETTICOAT daffodils is what the RHS calls them, but no one remembers the 1860s fashion for those uncomfortable waist-worn cages that concealed the ankles of Victorian ladies from upskirting gentlemen.
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February 12, 2025
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Come on, baby, light my fire
With its glossy orange cap, the 'little flame with a velvet foot' is a colourful addition to winter's mushroom bounty, but don't confuse it for a funeral bell, warns John Wright
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February 12, 2025
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Nature and nurture
In this final article in a series of three, Tim Richardson looks at the innovative and superbly maintained 18th-century landscape garden of Bramham
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February 12, 2025
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Magnificent mahonias
Scented, easy to grow and with many new forms in the pipeline, the once-maligned mahonia is due a renaissance, believes Charles Quest-Ritson
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January 29, 2025
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Mould and behold
Josiah Wedgwood beat today’s marketing virtuosos by some 260 years, but his remarkable social conscience stands out even more than his talent for business. Tristram Hunt traces the life and legacy of one of Britain’s most brilliant minds
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January 29, 2025
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Clashing colours
MINIATURE electric-pink ears are emerging through a tapestry of leaves and bare brown ground. It is January and this is the first wonder of the gardening year. Cyclamen coum also come in paling shades from the plush of ruby to snow white. However, my gardening partner and husband covets only the deepest magenta flowers, combing plant nurseries and DIY shops for the most colour-saturated flowers wriggling through the pots and trays of small heart-shaped leaves. He remarks on the energy of these miniature enamel beauties and says he finds it strengthening. He is, however, not a purist collector and, although he loves to set these garnets on a velvety ground under trees when planting these small corms, he also loves creating swathes of them in grass and beds, all muddled up with snowdrops and winter aconites. Snowdrops, yes, any time, but yellow aconites, Eranthis hyemalis, with puce cyclamen? Really? I, too, rejoice in the fringe of first green the aconites bring, that little lion's mane of chrome, but I recoil rather at the brassy cocktail of lemoncello aconites with the cherry brandy-coloured C. coum, except perhaps in a jug indoors. Isn't this rather sickly? Mr B feels strongly that it all helps to brighten up the dull days of February.
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January 29, 2025
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New link formed in food chain
Supermarkets recognise they need farmers as partners if they are going to stack their shelves
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January 29, 2025
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Building the dream
Sustainable, stylish and with all the modern benefits, buying a countryside new build can be a tempting proposition
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January 29, 2025
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Friends with benefits
Charles Quest-Ritson is a convert to the use of nematodes, parasitic worms that act as a biological control of many troublesome garden pests
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January 29, 2025
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Catch us if you can
England will have to fly to overtake runaway favourites France and Ireland in the impending Guinness Six Nations, says Owain Jones, as he sizes up the key players who could change their team's fate
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January 29, 2025
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Heard it on the radio
Company, music, news and a glimpse of life beyond: the first form of home-based mass entertainment, radio quickly became the soundtrack to our lives and it isn't going anywhere, says Ben Lerwill
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January 29, 2025
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Full of the joys of spring(ers)
Big brother to the fashionable cocker, the energetic, enthusiastic and thoroughly endearing English springer remains our most popular working spaniel, says Matthew Dennison
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