Old gold

It’s estimated that 95% of all the gold ever mined is still around.

The merchandising of Venice

“What news on the Rialto?”
“Why, tis flooded…”

We’re in the Monet!

Who wouldn’t want a Monet painting hanging on their wall?

Everyone likes trees

International Day of Forests falls on Thursday 21 March 2019. Its theme this year is Forests and Education.

A corner of a foreign field that is for ever England

The less well-known poets of the First World War include Charles Hamilton Sorley.

Edward Thomas’s “October”

During the First World War, the American poet Robert Frost persuaded the young British writer Edward Thomas to take up poetry.

All grist to the mill for Rembrandt

Known for his portraits, Rembrandt also painted landscapes.