Returning to our traditional May Bank Holiday Dates Join us on Sunday 4th & Monday 5th May 2025 for the 25th Village Garden Trail all in aid of St. Mary's Church, Fittleworth This popular village event has run every year but one since 1994 This year we have 14 Garden plus other attractions generously opening […]
Elisabeth-Louise Vigée displayed exceptional early talent, and on 31 May 1783 became one of just four women elected to France’s prestigious Académie Royale de Peinture et de sculpture. Vigée Le Brun was Queen Marie-Antoinette’s favourite portraitist, creating royal portraits that were astonishing in their informality. Following the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, that […]
Speaker: Simon Seligman Deborah Devonshire, the youngest of the Mitford sisters and wife of the 11th Duke of Devonshire was hefted by marriage to one of Europe’s greatest treasure houses, Chatsworth. With responsibility for Lismore Castle and Bolton Abbey no wonder her passport stated her profession as ‘housewife’. Along the way, she became a best-selling […]
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