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💡#TudorSpotlight:

Henry Fitzalan, Earl of Arundel (1512-1580)

A prominent courtier who lived during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Jane Grey, Mary I and Elizabeth I.

He was married to Katherine Grey (daughter of 2nd Marquess of Dorset), and then Mary Arundell, pictured

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2021-01-14

FROM INUIT PEOPLE: Throughout her extensive career Kenojuak Ashevak went from being the first woman on Cape Dorset to engage in arts to becoming the subject of many documentaries and news reports: no one could resists being fascinated with her majestic creatures.

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2021-01-09

A marine reptile from 150 million years ago, known as the Etches sea dragon, was recently discovered in along the English Channel coastline in Dorset, England.

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2020-12-30

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Shuvinai Ashoona began drawing in the early 1990s, and quickly rose to prominence when her work was included in the 1997 Cape Dorset Annual Print Collection. 📖 https://t.co/XYSEMjkUD4 Untitled by Shuvinai Ashoona 2018
📷©️ West Baffin Eskimo Cooperative

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2020-12-29

Another Christmas Commission I can now share with you. The gorgeous German Shepherd called Sheba 🐾
Acrylic on 16x12” canvas

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2020-12-27

My son loves the sea, and whilst visiting Winspit Caves in Dorset, was in complete awe of the ocean, and the crashing waves, so I quickly took a photo - which I knew I’d paint one day!
Watercolour, pencil, acrylic, ink
On Saunders Waterford 300gsm 410x310mm

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2020-12-23

Dec 19 1943 the residents of Tyneham, Dorset were forced to evacuate as the army requisitioned the village. Today there's just the skeletal remains of cottages, rose bushes, and Tyneham House, a joint release (lttw cpt14/15)https://t.co/k6hkKlfaVa

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2020-12-19

Today Banbury hillfort is largely inaccessible and damaged by centuries of agricultural attrition. The ramparts survive in places to 2m high and the site still dominates the Stour Valley

It has never been excavated

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2020-12-09

Good morning Dorothy & thank you. It sounds as if you've get the same weather in Bournemouth as we've got (not unsurprisingly bearing in mind our proximity to one another!). Here's a Dorset image to brighten your day: this is "Lyme Regis" by John Cooper from c.1935. https://t.co/MDgzYc2ekL

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2020-12-05