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Country Life in Suffolk

By Andrew Grant-Adamson • Sep 8th, 2006

Country Life must have been a journalistic revolution when it was launched in 1897. I have been looking at pages featuring a moated Suffolk house published little more than a year later and was struck by the space devoted to photographs which was innovative at the time.
I was looking at it because the January 1899 [...]



Getting started… again

By Andrew Grant-Adamson • Jun 12th, 2006

There is a difference between a blog which is intended to be read by anyone who might be remotely interested in what I write and a diary which is essentially private. Yet, there is also a similarity: both are started with the intention of continuing with some sort of regularity although they may both be [...]