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A skull grins out of the shadows. A candle sends up its last thread of smoke. A glass lies on its side with the wine long gone. To a prosperous household in seventeenth-century Holland, a picture like
Hans Litten: The Lawyer Who Put Hitler in the Witness Box
In May 1931 a young Berlin barrister subpoenaed Adolf Hitler and questioned him for three hours. Hitler never forgave it. The story of Hans Litten, and why it is being retold now.
The Gallery That Invented the Gallery - Dulwich, John Soane and a King's Lost Collection
Before Dulwich, looking at great paintings in England usually required an introduction, a private appointment, or the luck of being born into the right family. Pictures lived in country houses and tow
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Most houses that last do so by changing. They are extended, subdivided, restored and handed from one owner to the next, each leaving a mark. The tall terraced house on the north side of Lincoln's Inn