Enclosure older than Salisbury monument found under late novelist’s garden is given heritage protectionWhen the author Thomas Hardy was writing Tess of the D’Urbervilles in 1891, he chose to set the novel’s...
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Read MoreMining tycoon Gina Rinehart has asked the National Gallery of Australia to remove her portrait, painted by Vincent Namatjira. Others have gone much furtherFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and...
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Read MoreThe Return of the Buffalo Herd, by teenage prodigies Edward and Charles Detmold, can be seen at Bateman’s after conservationA rare watercolour depicting the aftermath of a climactic moment in Rudyard Kipling’s The...
Read MoreCulture minister Lina Mendoni pledges to ‘fill the void’ at the British Museum should the ancient sculptures be returnedGreece is prepared to part with some of its greatest treasures to “fill the void” at...
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