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The Glamour of Italian Fashion 1945 - 2014 / VA London / 5 April - 27 July 2014
A Gianfranco Ferre advert from 1991Lead sponsorBulgariThe Glamour of Italian Fashion 1945 - 2014: About the Exhibition5 April - 27 July 2014 /...
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AMERICANA / Norman Rockwell . The Tattoo Artist, 1944. Cover illustration for...
Norman Rockwell (American, 1894 to 1978). The Tattoo Artist, 1944. Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, March 4, 1944. Oil on canvas. 43 x 33 in. Collection of the Brooklyn Museum Gift of...
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The Great Omi from Upper-class to Zebra Man.
Horace Ridler (1892–1969) was a professional freak and sideshow performer, a tattooed man exhibiting himself as The Great Omi or The Zebra Man.Though there is some uncertainty due to the characteristic...
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The Crimson Field / BBC One
The Crimson Field, episode 1, reviewBBC period drama The Crimson Field is the First World War by way of Call the Midwife, says Serena DaviesBy Serena Davies / 06 Apr 2014 /...
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Bankruptcy forces baronet out of family seat. Sir Charles Both he and Lady...
The Aristocracy series originally aired on the BBC. Each episode explores a period in the history of Britain's noble classes. Focusing on the decline of this class in the modern world, each tape offers...
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RED ( "PINK" ) Hunting Coat.
Mounted hunt followers typically wear traditional hunting attire. A prominent feature of hunts operating during the formal hunt season (usually November to March in the northern hemisphere) is hunt...
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Two INVERTÈRE Archetypes ...
The Invertère Coat Company Ltd was formed in 1904 by Mr Harold Parkin and his two brothers. They began making coats above a shop in the centre of Newton Abbot and the name "Invertere" (Latin for "to...
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Time to shave ?
Beard trend goes a whisker too far as men told 'it's time to shave'First it was Hollywooddads at the Oscars, then men in John Lewis adverts and finally Jeremy Paxman. The end is nighHannah MarriottThe...
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British Pathé, the newsreel maker which documented all walks of life on video...
British Pathé, the newsreel maker which documented all walks of life on video during the 20th Century, has uploaded its entire collection of moving images to YouTube.The archive of 3,500 hours of...
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Sherlock Holmes returns in new Anthony Horowitz book, Moriarty. Sherlock...
Anthony Horowitz's Moriarty, a new Sherlock Holmes novel, is out 23 October Photograph: Andy Paradise/Rex FeaturesSherlock Holmes returns in new Anthony Horowitz book, Moriarty'Does anyone believe what...
View ArticleBritish Gardens in Time Ep.1 Great Dixter - part 1
Great Dixter lays claim to being the most innovative, spectacular and provocative garden of the 20th century. Made famous by the much-loved eccentric plantsman and writer Christopher Lloyd, who used...
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BBC Four - British Gardens in Time
Series which explores four iconic British gardens, from Christopher Lloyd's Arts and Craft Great Dixter to Georgian Stowe and from Victorian Biddulph Grange to the quintessentially English...
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