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Famous Antarctic explorers’ libraries

ENC News 10 Jul 2018

When you are planning a major expedition, the first “must-have” to include on your packing list is naturally thousands of books. On Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Discovery expedition of 1901-04,...

Gilded Chicago: Portraits of an Epoch

ENC News 03 Jul 2018

The companion exhibition to the Driehaus Museum’s Beauty’s Legacy: Gilded Age Portraiture in America, this intimate gallery comprised of ten paintings focuses on prominent Chicago citizens and the portraits they...

Augustus Pugin: creator of Britain’s most iconic buildings

ENC News 25 Jun 2018

The skylines of Britain’s great cities, London, Manchester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cardiff, are dominated by two great architectural styles, which compete with one another for the attention of the...

Thomas Cole, America’s leading landscape painter

ENC News 18 Jun 2018

Thomas Cole, America’s leading landscape painter (1805-1848) was born in Bolton in Lancashire. His family immigrated to the USA. At the age of 18, he arrived in Philadelphia determined to...

Beautiful World, Where are You?

ENC News 12 Jun 2018

The 30,000 Minton tiles of St George’s Hall in Liverpool, one of the most spectacular surviving Victorian floors, are usually far too good for everyday use. But the covers will...

American Museum of Natural History

ENC News 06 Jun 2018

Beyond the iconic, show-stopping displays – the grizzly bear in the Hall of North American Mammals, the 94-feet long blue whale, the prehistoric Barosaurus skeleton rearing up – is an...

The Royal Ballet’s Elizabeth

ENC News 29 May 2018

The Royal Ballet’s Elizabeth has a magnificent central performance. Zenaida Yanowsky is superb as the Tudor queen in Will Tuckett’s dance drama, which blends Elizabethan text, new music and dance....

Astonishing teenage pianist Lauren Zhang

ENC News 22 May 2018

A 16-year-old pianist has won the BBC’s prestigious Young Musician award, right before her GCSE exams. Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Lauren Zhang began learning the piano aged 4 and...

John Hansard Gallery of contemporary art

ENC News 15 May 2018

This new gallery’s well-designed interior does justice to the German art star – and extends Britain’s arty south coast. A new gallery of contemporary art opens its soaring glass doors...

King James Bible’s classic text: Isaac Casaubon helped translate it

ENC News 08 May 2018

A scholar has discovered that the King James Bible includes work by a previously unsuspected French translator, whose contribution to the quintessentially English work has lain undetected for 400 years....

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