Category Archives: Oxfordshire
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5 May 2015
Election Mayhem
This Thursday the UK holds a General Election. It hasn’t been a gripping election campaign. Not like the old days. In the mid 18th Century William Hogarth had plenty to work with – in his “Humours of an Election”, a series of oils – later engravings, he illustrates the election of a member of parliament in Oxfordshire in 1754. The paintings date to the...
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2 October 2014
Featured in The Oxford Times
Watch out for The Oxford Times this week. The colour supplement has quite a comprehensive feature on LASSCO Three Pigeons with an interview with the shop manager Anthony Reeve. Most of what he says is true. There’s an alarming number of pictures of him – popping up behind railings, sidling into view by a phone...