Women gardeners (Image courtesy of the Garden Museum) Fiona Davison‘s discovery of letters written by Olive Harrisson, a talented gardener denied a scholarship by the Royal Horticultural Society “on account of being female”, led to […]
Tarisio are accepting bids for a 1731 Stradivari violin on which Heifetz prepared the premieres of the Korngold and Walton concertos and made several famous recordings. Heifetz sold the instrument to colelctor Sam Bloomfield in […]
One of Jane Austen’s manuscripts Gillian Dooley‘s book, She played and sang: Jane Austen and music, was published by Manchester University Press in March 2024. The book looks at the central role that music played […]