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Celebrating farming entrepreneur, Joseph Brittain Pash
We often hear how children were once supposed to be ‘seen and not heard’. Chelmsford businessman and entrepreneur Joseph Brittain Pash, however, had a more benevolent view towards children during Victorian Britain. He believed they should not only
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How Louis Marchesi founded the Round Table organisation
Norwich Rotary Club may not, in the Art Deco era, have been at the forefront of modern attitudes. Indeed, in the early 1930s a visiting member, The Rev Harold Mullett from Ponder’s End - staying in Norfolk as a locum for the holidaying incumbent at
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The Cheshire-born irrigation engineer with a lasting legacy in India
There are quite a few Cottons in my hefty biographical dictionary including Charles (1630-87), a writer and friend of Izaak Walton; George (1813-66), the Rugby master who appears in Tom Brown’s School Days, and Sir Robert (1571-1631), the antiquary
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Television’s famous archaeologists, Time Team, return to Sutton Hoo
Over 85 years ago, one of the UK’s greatest archaeological discoveries was unearthed from an unassuming mound at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk. The discovery changed history. It went on to become the richest burial ever found in northern Europe and was
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How the Brontë birthplace in Bradford was saved for future generations
If anyone ever asks me my favourite book I answer without hesitation… Wuthering Heights. It is both violent and dark, and certainly not a love story no matter how Sir Lawrence Oliver portrayed it in the first of many screen adaptations. Instead
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New film depicts the life of Dorset’s trailblazing fossil hunter
Over two centuries ago, 12-year-old Mary Anning, along with her older brother Joseph, made a remarkable discovery while searching for fossils on a beach near their home at Lyme Regis. They unearthed the remains of a mysterious crocodile-like creature
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From Hampshire housewife to art collector extraordinaire
An excellent exhibition has launched this month in the heart of Hampshire at Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery. ‘Peggy Guggenheim: Petersfield to Palazzo’ curated by Louise Weller, explores the remarkable life of American socialite and famous art
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Dennis Potter: One of the most important creative forces in British television
Denis Potter and I have things in common. Blue Remembered Hills was the title of his 1979 wartime drama starring Colin Welland and Helen Mirren, those coloured, recalled hills being Welsh but seen from the perspective of the English borderlands. Potter
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The New Mills man who became one the country's leading conservationists
‘The only thing Derbyshire doesn’t have is a coastline.’ That was the firmly-held view often expressed to me by Martin Doughty, the New Mills man who became one of Britain’s leading environmentalists. And he devoted much of his tragically short
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Why the Radical Liberal politician, Leonard Courtney was ahead of his time
Radical Liberal politician, Leonard Courtney was ahead of his time and deserves to be better known than he is. It's not often Cornish Greats uncovers someone who had connections extending to the heart of the British Establishment and the Privy Council