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The Treasury is set to insure the Bayeux Tapestry against damage for an estimated £800m while it is on loan to the British ...

I When the gloom of wintertide was deepest, when snow and ice fettered the earth, and a frost-wind came shoreward from the ...

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Timber from the Whiligh estate in the Sussex Weald was used to build the vast hammerbeam roof of Westminster Hall — and its custodian still fells trees for very special commissions.

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