HeyJaredDeborah Nicholls-Lee
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- Sep 8, 2026
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Frogs, foxes and fire-breathing dragons: Meet the barking, quacking and roaring menagerie of the Bayeux Tapestry (opens the original)
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Rampant lions take artful poses, a wolf plays a trick on a crane, and excitable dogs chase their own tails: the Bayeux Tapestry, commissioned shortly after the Battle of Hastings to convey a Norman version of the conquest of England, depicts more animals than humans. Around 200 of them are horses — royal mounts, workhorses and cavalry — all stitched onto 70 metres of linen in wool dyed with woad, madder and weld. As they charge through the embroidery’s nine panels, they pass a barking, quacking,
The creative power of scenery and steam continues to inspire (opens the original)
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'Unmitigated England’/Came swinging down the line/That day the February sun/Did crisp and crystal shine’, rejoiced Sir John Betjeman in Great Central Railway, Sheffield Victoria to Banbury as he rode the ‘trail of glory’ of the Victorians’ last mainline railway. For writers such as Betjeman, railways — especially steam engines — have offered endless inspiration. Pioneered by the British, they denote national pride and nostalgia, as well as providing the perfect metaphor for the narrative journey
'The caviar of its day': How the cucumber sandwich conquered tea time (opens the original)
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'Cucumber dipped in vinegar!’ begins Anne excitedly in Enid Blyton’s Five Go Off to Camp, reeling off with enthusiasm the sandwiches prepared for them for a moorland hike to their pitching spot. ‘Oooh, Mr Luffy, your sandwiches are much nicer than ours!’ It’s not hard to imagine that fresh, tangy fillings such as cucumber would have delighted post-war picnickers such as the Famous Five. In both fiction and reality, our affection for the cucumber sandwich has been enduring. Piled on patterned pla
Fields of gold: Our finest art has been inspired by home-grown produce (opens the original)
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'Old old England, lands of golden peace,/Thy fields are spun with gossameres of gold,/And golden garners gather thy increase.’ Thus wrote poet and Nobel prize-winner Sir Ronald Ross in 1914, as war cast a shadow over the British countryside. The ‘golden peace’ of our cereal fields remains central to our national identity today, spanning three million hectares of land, from the rolling chalk hills of the South Downs to the flat Fenlands of East Anglia, known as the bread basket of Britain. Swathe
'We cracked the padlock and found a mountainful of asbestos, so that wasn't ideal': The secret spaces in our finest country houses (opens the original)
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Framed by spiky palms and overlooking the teal expanse of the Salcombe estuary in Devon, Overbeck’s, an Edwardian country house currently under renovation, harbours a secret that delighted me as a child. Amid the curiosities collected by its eccentric owner was a hidden door. I remember the excitement of hunting for it and entering the dimly lit space beyond: a room with wall-to-wall dolls’ houses and petite proportions that were perfectly suited to a small child with a big imagination. Decades
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