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    Gavin Plumley

    Gavin Plumley

    Gavin Plumley is a cultural historian. He is the author of A Home for All Seasons and is currently writing his second book. Gavin appears on BBC Radio 3 and 4 and recently made his cinematic debut in Klimt and The Kiss

    The world has gone Lilliputian: The 21st-century renaissance of the dolls' house

    A renewed interest in opulent dolls' houses is allowing artisans to indulge their wilder miniature flights of fancy.

    By Gavin Plumley Published 7 April 26

    • Hamnet won the top film award at the 2026 Golden Globes — but where in the British countryside was it filmed?

      Herefordshire is the very picture of what England is in the collective mind’s eye.

      By Gavin Plumley Last updated 12 January 26

    • Art Deco: The striking design style that embraced it all

      Art Deco, with its exuberant passion for geometry, luxury and shiny chrome, cocooned troubled times in a layer of glitz. A century after the style gained its name, Gavin Plumley surveys one of the 20th century’s most all-encompassing movements.

      By Gavin Plumley Published 19 August 25

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