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GARDENING: Within a secluded arbour
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A MEDIEVAL garden is a romantic notion. You imagine
fresh-scrubbed ladies in wimples being serenaded in vine-covered
bowers by languid swains with lutes, while fragrant old roses and
pure white Madonna lilies bloom profusely round a camomile lawn.
Yet to create something like that at the end of the 20th century
- is it maybe a touch perverse? The thrust of horticulture in the
last 700 years has been to develop improved strains of flowers and
plants that stay in bloom longer, resist disease and are generally
more gardener-friendly. Why hark back to the bad old days?
It is to Sylvia Landsberg's ...
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The lure of the iron fist;BY CHARLES TOWNSHEND FASCISM: A History by Roger Eatwell, Chatto pounds 20
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...communism). This emphasis on social radicalism allows him to sideline "essentially conservative" figures like Franco, or Charles Maurras in France, whose "views in general are better placed within the reactionary right-wing tradition". But this formula...
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'Soldiers are we': the Easter Rising took place in Dublin ninety years ago this month. Charles Townshend has read hundreds of 'witness statements' from the men and women who took part, made available to the public in 2003 after decades in a government vault.(CROSS CURRENT)
Magazine article from: History Today
; SOLDIERS ARE WE, WHOSE LIVES ARE PLEDGED TO IRELANDthe stirring first lines of what was eventually to become the national anthem of the Irish Republic--were heard publicly for the first time in 1915. The composer of the 'Soldier's Song', Peadar Kearney, had accidentally shot himself in the foot
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Townshend to produce 'Tommy' sequel for BBC
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; ...on 5 December. Yesterday, Townshend said that when he wrote the...when you think about what Townshend was writing in 1971 ," she...The veteran rock writer Charles Shaar Murray told The Scotsman...This is an ideal time for Townshend because the revival comes...
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The eccentric gardener ; Our new columnist, Emma Townshend, has radical, unusual plans for your outside space. But then, what would you expect from a daughter of rock royalty who looks to Darwin and Buddhism for her inspiration?
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday
; Emma Townshend's front garden is something of a talking point among her neighbours...the latest scientific ideas, from Gregor Mendel's work on genetics to Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution. From there she ended up studying the...
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The outdoor laboratory ; Photosynthesis, osmosis... we all remember bits from biology class. So use that knowledge in your garden, says Emma Townshend. Pictures by Claire Davies
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday
; ...recognise the value of this body of practical knowledge. For example, reading The Origin of Species, you are struck by the way Charles Darwin made use of the everyday experience of gardeners. He placed appeals in gardening journals, hoping to pick up correspondents...
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Homes: Gardens - Olive groves in Devon? Emma Townshend on the fruits of global warming
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday
; ...three years in northern Italy. By coincidence, I had been with a group to Painshill Park, in Surrey, the day before, where Charles Hamilton planted a vineyard, in the warm 1740s, that produced a wine good enough to have fooled the French ambassador into...
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Landscapes of the soul ; What are the most important landscape designs of the last century? It's a question that garden expert Katie Campbell attempts to answer in her new book. She explains her controversial choices to Emma Townshend
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday
; ...his name to make himself sound more aristocratic, Isamu Noguchi started off making ballet costumes for Martha Graham, and Charles Jencks' massively ambitious Garden of Cosmic Speculation is actually on land belonging to his in-laws. The 29 chapters...
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NAMES & FACES Charles Street Jail: a nice place to visit
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...a local preservation planner, the Charles Street Jail represents all that is good...have looked like on the banks of the Charles, which once had wharves. It was a very...his 24-year-old rock opera, Pete Townshend said of the $6 million production that...
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Charles tops our property ranking
Newspaper article from: Western Daily Press (Bristol UK)
; Prince Charles has been named the property market's wealthiest person in the West...property magnates in the region include Dorset-based landowner Charlotte Townshend in 71st place, with a fortune put at pounds400 million, and Harry Hyams...
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ATCAKES AT DAWN ; Prince Charles brought luxury to the organic food market with his Duchy Orig inals range. But are his business practices as wholesome as his stoneg round bread? John Walsh tastes controversy ++ His Royal Harvest
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...clothing and designer gumboots. It is, of course, all Prince Charles's fault. It's 20 years since he turned his country house...recalls the kerfuffle caused by the arrival at the company of Sue Townshend, a former brand manager at Crabtree & Evelyn, the luxury...
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