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Harold Nicolson

Type: Person

Name: Harold Nicolson

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Sir Roy Strong: Cockneys and toffs alike treated me with contempt

Former director of the V&A Sir Roy Strong told yesterday’s Oldie lunch at Simpson’s how menswear shops in the Sixties used to measure your inside leg even when you were buying a tie. He also recalled how cockneys and toffs alike treated him, as a meritocrat ... [Published London Evening Standard - May 15 2013]

Entities: Roy Strong, Harold Nicolson, Appointed

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

VIDEO: Exhibition to mark famous garden

An exhibition has opened to mark the 75th anniversary of the famous garden at Sissinghurst Castle.The garden, near Cranbrook in Kent, was created by Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson.Their unconventional marriage also forms part of another exhibition ... [Published BBC - May 01 2013]

Entities: Harold Nicolson, Vita Sackville-West, Property

First reported Apr 25 2013 - Updated Apr 25 2013 - 1 reports

The New Statesman: A nursery of talent

looks back on her time as an NS staffer.I was working at the Evening Standard when I heard that there was a job going as deputy literary editor on the New Statesman . I remember thinking, that’s perfect. It was three days a week and I had children, but ... [Published New Statesman - Apr 25 2013]

Entities: Claire Tomalin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Clive James

First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 22 2013 - 1 reports

Edinburgh Castle guide volunteers help for Dreghorn

A MILITARY enthusiast has stepped forward to offer his services as a tour guide at the Capital’s under-threat First World War trenches. Harold Nicolson of Tollcross, a volunteer tour guide at Edinburgh Castle, said he became interested in the trenches ... [Published The Scotsman - Apr 22 2013]

Entities: Edinburgh (United Kingdom), World War I, Deaf, Harold Nicolson

First reported Apr 17 2013 - Updated Apr 17 2013 - 1 reports

Private garden tours at Sissinghurst Castle

Date Posted: 17/04/2013Private group tours are now available at National Trust property, Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, offering insight into the history and workings of the picturesque gardens.New for 2013, pre-booked groups will be granted exclusive access ... [Published Group Leisure - Apr 17 2013]

Entities: Harold Nicolson, Vita Sackville-West, Seven Years' War

First reported Apr 17 2013 - Updated Apr 17 2013 - 1 reports

Bure Equity AB

Natural beauty

If your TV is tuned to Gardeners' World on a Friday evening and your radio to Gardeners' Question Time on a Sunday then prepare to be excited.One of the four-day tours you see offered here takes you to some of the most highly regarded gardens in Sussex ... [Published This is Gloucestershire - Apr 17 2013]

Entities: Harold Nicolson, Vita Sackville-West, John Constable, Bure Equity AB

First reported Nov 30 2012 - Updated Nov 30 2012 - 1 reports

Winston Churchill

History as it was being made

Events, Dear Boy, Events: A Political Diary of Britain from Woolf to Campbell Edited by Ruth Winstone, Profile, 25 Britons of a particular class and background are enthusiastic writers of diaries and keepers of private papers. The lineage goes back to ... [Published Calcutta Telegraph - Nov 30 2012]

Entities: Stafford Cripps, CHARLES WILSON, Harold Nicolson, Winston Churchill, Virginia Woolf