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Maev Kennedy is a freelance arts and archaeology journalist
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Pioneering British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron honoured with a blue plaque in London

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By Maev Kennedy 
| The Art Newspaper
A blue plaque has been unveiled on the London home of Julia Margaret Cameron, celebrating the pioneering photographer who took up a camera at the age of 48. She went on to create iconic portraits of famous contemporaries including Alfred Tennyson, Charles Darwin and Thomas Carlyle—while immortalising her family, servants and neighbours as angels, saints and figures from Arthurian legend.
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Rare pigment worth more than its weight in gold found in Roman infant burials in York, UK

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By Maev Kennedy 
| The Art Newspaper
Some 1,700 years ago two infants were buried in York, UK, with the care, respect and expense usually reserved for Roman emperors and aristocrats, their little bodies wrapped in Tyrian purple dyed cloth embroidered with gold thread. The intense purple dye was among the most prized luxuries of the Roman empire, made in specialist dye works in Tyre, modern-day Lebanon, by crushing millions of murex sea snails.
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Nymphs, mermaids, and rosy cherubs: mansion filled with hidden wall paintings makes Victorian Society’s endangered buildings list

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By Maev Kennedy 
| The Art Newspaper
A derelict mansion marooned within a modern hospital’s grounds, featuring a hidden trove of wall paintings by an almost-forgotten woman artist, has made the Victorian Society’s latest list of the top ten at-risk buildings in England and Wales.
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