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A friend said there was a trailer for a programme where punters were invited to video themselves holding forth on their favourite art historical objaaaay and then send it in ! Does anyone know the...
This is the first line to a beautiful children's poem but I can't remember it's title. It tells the life of the poppy and ends up with her seed case being a casket of dreams. Does anyone know of this...
In James Morris's 1960 book "Venice", he mentions that he lived near a palazzo that had a plaque saying that a famous French actress once lived there. Does anybody know the name of the palazzo or of...
I am trying to get a Barbara Wood print 20" deep by 24" wide, apart from The Red Shoes and A Summers Day. I have looked on eBay and EverythingArt but to no avail. Can anyone help me?
i remember reading a book with a little old lady, there was a hotel by the seaside, she has been going there since a child, went with her mother, hotel is shutting down, murder of a rich man in a...
I found a small book at home dated as 1893, it's called Bryce's gazetteer of the world, published in Glasgow 1893. It's like a little encyclopedia and it's only about two inches tall and inch wide and...
I remember reading a binder of partworks, called the Book of Life published by the Marshall Cavendish Press(first edition 1969?) and I came across a description of a person described as a 'person...
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