Category: Books
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A Corpus of Early Medieval Inscribed Stones and Stone Sculpture in Wales: Volume III: North Wales
The third volume of A Corpus of Early Medieval Inscribed Stones and Stone Sculpture in Wales has recently been published. This final volume focuses on the inscribed stones and stone sculpture of north Wales c. AD400-1150. The first two volumes were published in 2007 by University of Wales Press. Volume I by Mark Redknap and…
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The Vyne Roman ring
The Hobbit ring that may have inspired Tolkien put on show In what was once the housekeeper’s office of a Tudor mansion in Hampshire, a very odd golden ring glitters on a revolving stand in a tall perspex column. In chapter five of The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins finds a ring in the gloom of Gollum’s…
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Pharmacopoeia
A new exhibition which includes some of the earliest recorded interpretations of the natural sciences has opened as part of the British Science Festival. Pharmacopoeia, meaning ‘preparation of drugs’, is an exhibition featuring rare and beautiful printed and manuscript material, which explores the study of the medicinal qualities of plants in the treatment of disease.…
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Brontë portraits
Rare painting of the three Bronte sisters due to go under the hammer at Northamptonshire auction AN auctioneer is aiming to secure a rare hat-trick by selling an “important” picture thought to depict all three Bronte sisters. Jonathon Humbert, of JP Humbert Auctioneers, based in Towcester, says he is confident the painting, which he claims…
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St Cuthbert’s Gospel
The British Library has announced that it has successfully acquired the St Cuthbert Gospel, a miraculously well-preserved 7th century manuscript that is the oldest European book to survive fully intact and therefore one of the world’s most important books. The £9 million purchase price for the Gospel has been secured following the largest and most…
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The faces of Burke and Hare
Doon the close and up the stair Butt and ben wi Burke and Hare Burke’s the butcher, Hare’s the thief And Knox the boy that buys the beef! Found: the faces of Burke and Hare The forgotten faces of two of Scotland’s most infamous murderers have been discovered among a number of macabre artefacts languishing…
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Jane Austen ‘lost portrait’
Jane Austen biographer discovers ‘lost portrait’ Jane Austen scholar Dr Paula Byrne claims to have discovered a lost portrait of the author which, far from depicting a grumpy spinster, shows a writer at the height of her powers and a woman comfortable in her own skin. The only accepted portraits of Austen to date are …
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WW1 poppies
Poppy plucked from the trenches goes on show BRITAIN’S oldest remembrance day poppy was on show for the first time yesterday. Private Cecil Roughton was just 17 when he picked the flower during a bloody battle in Arras, France, in May 1916 [1917?]. The soldier, from the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, kept it in his notebook…
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Prehistoric Cumbria
Mysteries of Cumbria’s ancient stones unlocked A BOOK which sets out to fill the ‘black hole’ in Cumbria’s prehistoric past has been published by a Cambridge academic. Dr David Barrowclough, a Fellow in Archaeology, has pulled together decades of research to come up with new interpretations about how ancient Cumbrians lived and why they built…
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