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Glamour On The Go Exhibition

Glamour on the Go exhibition

I wrote this for the Essential Surrey website – essentialsurrey.co.uk.

Our choice of make-up reveals interesting little things about us, while paradoxically covering us up. Trends in cosmetics reinforce current beauty ideals, social attitudes and economic conditions. With this truism in mind, an exhibition that explores the evolution of make-up and its shifting form and function is surely the most glamorous way to track and digest these changes.
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The Surrey Edit in the Press

Cosmo Blog Awards Newcomer shortlist

The Surrey Edit has been featured in my local paper reporting the (very exciting!) news that my blog has made the shortlist in Cosmopolitan magazine’s Cosmo Blog Awards. I’m in the Newcomer category, in association with the clothing store Next. Click on the article to make it bigger to read all about it!

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Green Belt Land Under Threat in Surrey

I wrote this for the Essential Surrey website – essentialsurrey.co.uk
Locals furious as Guildford Borough councillors support proposal to build over 2000 new homes on Green Belt land Three Farms Meadows in Ockham, the former site of Wisley airfield.

Green Belt land in Surrey could be under threat after plans to build a ‘new town’ were unveiled.
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Donald Campbell exhibition at Leatherhead Museum

Donald Campbell BluebirdI wrote this for essentialsurrey.co.uk
An exhibition on the life of Surrey born speed record breaker Donald Campbell, holder of 13 world speed records in the 1920s and 30s in the famous Bluebird cars and boats, launches Leatherhead Museum into Spring.
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Clandon Park Remembers World War One

Clandon Park

Clandon Park near Guildford, is famous for its imposing Venetian Palladian architecture, impressive Marble Hall and intricate stucco ceilings. So it may come as a surprise that it was once used as a military hospital. Indeed, visitors to the property, which the National Trust has owned since 1956, can now see a First World War operating theatre, which has just been recreated within the building to mark the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War and the role that the estate played.

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