Fabrics and clothing from the 17th to the 20th century belonging to the Chigis, one of Italy's most powerful aristocratic family, will be for the first time on show in Ariccia, a lovely town 15 miles away from Rome, also known for
The curator has been camping out for two weeks using only Civil War-era gear, despite snow and cold and general misery. Have any of you been following this? And if so, did you expect him to survive out there for two weeks? http://bit.ly/bXlduW
If he'd lived he would have been 100 years old this month and contemplating his work Creating the Inland Waterways Association which saved the British Canal network from closure and introduced narrow boating as a pleasure pastime to a then bewill