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I turn the tables on my old boss…

I mentioned back in the autumn that I’d been back to Milton Manor, where I started my career.  Here’s my finished interview with its owner, Anthony Mockler, which has finally come out in this year’s Hudson’s Historic Houses. Plus a few bonus images too, from an amusing photo shoot with Nigel Gibson and Linda Croose-Smith.

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Last week I dreamt I went to Milton Manor again

I know I’m always banging on about the time when I worked at Milton Manor, but I found myself back there once again last week.  I’m delighted to say that nothing’s changed in the last seventeen years, and that Anthony, Gwenda, and Cleopatra the llama are all still alive and thriving. Here are some photos from

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My first job as a curator

After my last post about getting a first job in museums or historic houses, my thoughts have been wandering back to my own experience… Here’s a magazine article I wrote at the time about my own early years of work (including, in the bottom left, there a very old photo!) Please excuse the jejeune enthusiasm,

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