As several readers may know, my day job is looking after Chedworth Roman Villa in the Cotswolds. Chedworth sits comfortably within a region that supported some of the most prosperous rural estates in Britannia. Yet the world that sustained and shaped the villa extended far beyond the Coln valley.
BOOK REVIEWS
Stephen Coan’s The Buried Man can only be described as magisterial. It is the culmination of decades of patient, methodical, and deeply informed scholarship. Coan has lived with, traced, and tracked H. Rider Haggard for much of his adult life, and this monumental volume represents the distillation of that long engagement. It is unlikely to be surpassed for a very long time.
BLUE PLAQUES
House Kuhlmann was designed by Herbert Baker and Masey in 1903 for J Kuhlman, a German chemical engineer consulting to Rand Mines Ltd. A simple rectangular design with small windows on the south side and impressive windows on the north, it had a commanding position on the Mountain View Ridge with views to the Magaliesberg.