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We're taking a look at nine of the greatest objects on display in the National Trust's properties across Britain.
For nearly 200 years the Parthenon marbles held onto the secret they were suspected of keeping.
In the final part of our series looking at the National Trust's finest treasures, we look at one of the very finest paintings in the Trust's ownership.
The London Art Fair has become a real highlight of the art world each year. James Elwes picks out half a dozen of the artists on display for whom he sees a bright future.
Our series looking at the National Trust's finest treasures looks at a pre-Reformation altar front from Cotehele which has survived to the present day.
Our motoring guru Charles Rangeley-Wilson laments the growing number of cars’ automated features–from lane assist to emergency braking and too-sensitive boot-closing devices–that drive him mad.
'The setting sun pulses, the motion in the waves and figures is slowly rhythmic and the mountains float on the horizon.'
Our series looking at the National Trust's finest treasures takes aim at the Thomas Chippendale dressing table of Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire.
We're taking a look at nine of the greatest objects on display in the National Trust's properties across Britain — this time around we look at the incredibly intricate soup tureens of Ickworth.
We're taking a look at nine of the greatest objects on display in the National Trust's properties across Britain — today it's the astonishing carving at Dunham Massey.
We're taking a look at nine of the greatest objects on display in the National Trust's properties across Britain — this edition examines a painting that is small in size and large in meaning.
We're taking a look at nine of the greatest objects on display in the National Trust's properties across Britain — and the choice today is a piece whose simplicity belies its story of tragedy, heroism, survival and recording of a dreadful incident.
We're taking a look at nine of the greatest objects on display in the National Trust's properties across Britain — today, it's a prosthetic breakthrough in Anglesey.
Rolls-Royce smashed its car sales record in 2019, and with Bentley also doing well it seems that better times are ahead for the British motoring industry.
We're taking a look at nine of the greatest objects on display in the National Trust's properties across Britain — starting with a painting at Wallington in Northumberland.
'An extraordinary statement on the intoxicating power of art,' says Hartwig Fischer as he chooses 'Untitled' by Cy Twombly as his favourite painting.
The story of the family that created one of the National Trust’s best-known houses is revealed to Clive Aslet through its collection of art and furniture.
Utterly Inessential is back with the things which you‘d rather have received for Christmas itself, but have resigned yourself to purchasing in the January sales.
