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Trustee at The London Luminaries. Historic buildings operations manager. Loves Meissen/Jacobite/symbolism/ collections/Turner/Soane/Wedgwood/Meissen

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I’m starting 2 get back on track with my running. After a series of injuries I have managed to run 3 times this week between 6 & 9 km. On Friday I’m going to try for 10km. I run in (Whitton) & here is a Cedar of Lebanon remaining from the 18th century landscape garden

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‘During the European Enlightenment, the allure of ancient Egypt was due more to its association with esoteric knowledge and mystical insight than to any sense of wonder at the practical achievements of the pharaohs. A growing fashion for all things ancient Egyptian found

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Perhaps the idea of, on occasion, painting the adult Princes Charles Edward Stuart and his brother, Henry Benedict Stuart,as their childselves, stems from the notion of innocence and the desire to appeal to maternal instincts in the viewer?

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This prime minister would give Pinocchio a run for his money!

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What can you see? After Dominicus Custos (c. 1559-1615) The Cook c.1594
Engraving. At the British Museum.

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Brilliant double-headed talk tonight for the on the theme of Walt Disney and the French (and in same cases German) decorative arts. Absolutely fascinating! (3)

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today her viewpoint is reflected by many, including myself. Burlington was a Jacobite and Freemason and the decoration of Chiswick House is encoded with such emblems of loyalty.

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https://t.co/nEaxb7fbdr I recently come across this song on the web and it is my favourite track so far this year. An epic, dark song with brilliantly produced, atmospheric video. Themes of persecution certainly have parallels with modern times.

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A elephant named Sadie once roamed the gardens On request at social gatherings she ‘gave rides, and could use a broom and uncork bottles. She died and was buried in the grounds in 1828’.

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tea bowl & saucer, c. 1745, decorated with landscape vignettes depicting Watteauesque figures in grisaille landscapes, gilt foliate scrollwork borders to the rims, a spray of flowers to the inside of the teabowl, the saucer 12cm diameter, crossed swords & gold numbers 62

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