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Travel: Retreat From The World
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Travel: Retreat From The World

For his new book, Nat Segnit visited Britain’s quietest monasteries and islands to talk to monks, hermits and recluses

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July 2021
What is... a nail house?
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What is... a nail house?

Don’t confuse a nail house with a nail parlour. A nail house is an old house that survives as new building development goes on all around it.

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2 mins  |
July 2021
Kent's stairway to heaven
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Kent's stairway to heaven

Walter Barton May’s Hadlow Castle is the ultimate Gothic folly

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4 mins  |
July 2021
Pursuits
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Pursuits

Pursuits

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July 2021
The book that changed the world
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The book that changed the world

On Marcel Proust’s 150th anniversary, A N Wilson praises his masterpiece, an exquisite comedy with no parallel

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6 mins  |
July 2021
RIP the playboys of the western world
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RIP the playboys of the western world

Charlie Methven mourns his dashing former father-in-law, Luis ‘the Bounder’ Basualdo, last of a dying breed

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July 2021
Arts
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Arts

Arts

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July 2021
My film family's greatest hits
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My film family's greatest hits

Downton Abbey producer Gareth Neame follows in the footsteps of his father, grandfather and great-grandmother, a silent-movie star

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8 mins  |
July 2021
Books
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Books

Books

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July 2021
A lifetime of pin-ups
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A lifetime of pin-ups

Barry Humphries still has nightmares about going on stage. He’s always admired the stars who kept battling on

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7 mins  |
July 2021
Travel: Exmoor Ecstasy
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Travel: Exmoor Ecstasy

In lockdown, Londoner Ivo Dawnay moved to Somerset’s coombes and moors. Now he never wants to leave this Garden of Eden

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June 2021
Virginia McKenna, the African queen
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Virginia McKenna, the African queen

At 90, the actress is still saving the wildlife she fell in love with, filming Born Free, over 50 years ago. By Roderick Gilchrist

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June 2021
Renaissance miracles
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Renaissance miracles

For over 300 years, Italian painters produced the finest altarpieces in the world, says David Ekserdjian

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5 mins  |
June 2021
Thank heaven for Leslie Caron
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Thank heaven for Leslie Caron

She starred in Gigi, danced with Fred Astaire and acted opposite Cary Grant. Hugo Vickers meets the great actress as she turns 90

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June 2021
Dearest Diana
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Dearest Diana

Christopher Balfour fondly recalls a hilarious trip to New York with the princess, who would have been 60 on 1st July

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June 2021
Sex-mad DH Lawrence
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Sex-mad DH Lawrence

His amoral wife made the jealous writer think sex was a tragedy. By Frances Wilson

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5 mins  |
June 2021
Overlooked Britain: A philanthropist's palace
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Overlooked Britain: A philanthropist's palace

Heroic American steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie paid for 3,000 libraries and built glorious Skibo Castle in his native Scotland

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June 2021
I was a teenage Marxist
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I was a teenage Marxist

Bruce Anderson was bewitched by Marxism – until he saw the IRA at work in Northern Ireland

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4 mins  |
June 2021
Churchill's mommie dearest
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Churchill's mommie dearest

History hasn’t been kind to Jennie Churchill, who died 100 years ago. But the New Yorker was her son’s greatest influence. By Anne Sebba

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6 mins  |
June 2021
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How Mr Tickle Tickled The World

Fifty years after they began, Mr Men books have sold 85 million copies. Teacher Kath Garner pays tribute to the brilliant adman behind them

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The Oldie magazine - April 2021 issue (398)
The best sermons ever
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The best sermons ever

This Easter, vicars shouldn’t be obscure or arrogant in the pulpit. Like Jesus, they should be funny, says Reverend Peter Mullen

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The Oldie magazine - April 2021 issue (398)
When the Hurricane hit Liverpool
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When the Hurricane hit Liverpool

Alex Higgins smoked, boozed and gambled as he met a delighted Gary Smith

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2 mins  |
The Oldie magazine - April 2021 issue (398)
Gainsborough in London
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Gainsborough in London

The Suffolk painter is best known for his rural scenes – but his last years in the capital were the pinnacle of his career

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3 mins  |
April 2021
Suffering for her art
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Suffering for her art

Tortured by love, longing for children, Elizabeth Bowen poured her pain into her exceptional novels, says her friend A N Wilson

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The Oldie magazine - April 2021 issue (398)
The gripes of Roth
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The gripes of Roth

As a new biography appears, director Tristram Powell remembers working with a writer who could be kind – and scarily cruel

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6 mins  |
April 2021
Gyles Brandreth's Diary: Appointment with death
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Gyles Brandreth's Diary: Appointment with death

After 30 years of double vision and headaches, I finally visited a neurologist and learnt the truth...

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The Oldie magazine - April 2021 issue (398)
Wizards from Oz
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Wizards from Oz

A wave of brilliant Australians came to Britain sixty years ago. They included Clive James, Germaine Greer – and Barry Humphries

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6 mins  |
The Oldie magazine - April 2021 issue (398)
Pilgrimage to 84 Charing Cross Road
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Pilgrimage to 84 Charing Cross Road

A New Yorker’s letters to a London bookshop were a big hit 50 years ago. Valerie Grove accompanied her on her first visit to Marks & Co

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April 2021
Chips with extra sauce
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Chips with extra sauce

Chips Channon was the ideal political diarist – truthful, vulnerable and gossipy.

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6 mins  |
April 2021
Gregory Gregory's Stately Pleasure Home
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Gregory Gregory's Stately Pleasure Home

Harlaxton Manor has been home to a millionaire Victorian recluse, a face-cream tycoon and an American university

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4 mins  |
February 2021

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