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Ravenna: Oscar Wilde’s Byzantine Refuge - mosaics speak and poets listen
By Patrizia Poggi 16 August 2025 Ravenna Portrait of Oscar Wilde by Napoleon Sarony, photographic print on card mount: albumen. Library...
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Aug 14, 202511 min read


Clarence Bicknell, the Victorian polymath, and Nottingham
By Marcus Bicknell 26 August 2025 Buckinghamshire and Bordighera Nottingham has an enduring academic relationship with Clarence Bicknell,...
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Aug 9, 20258 min read


The Gorgeous Nothings at Chatsworth House
By Marysia Zipser 3 August 2025 Nottingham Photography by Marysia Zipser Click on images to enlarge Setting the scene at Chatsworth. In...
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Aug 3, 20258 min read


The Stray, Harrogate, North Yorkshire
By Marysia Zipser 30 July 2025 Nottingham Photography by Marysia Zipser Please click on photographs to enlarge. Setting the scene . It...
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Jul 30, 20255 min read


England - Italy: The Byron Connection - Newstead Abbey and Ravenna
By Stuart Baird Nottingham, 18th July 2025 Photographs by Stuart Baird George Gordon Byron Edward Hodges Bailey (1788-1867), marble Byron is one of the highest profile literary figures in the world and attracts attention from global media, literary and cultural travellers from across the world. His outrageous behaviour, including multiple affairs with the wives of the wealthy, drinking from the skull of a monk on the Italian Grand Tour, as we
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Jul 18, 20257 min read

