All posts tagged: Northampton

A house to dream in

Whether or not Charles Rennie Mackintosh sensed that a modest terraced house in Northampton would contain his last major work may be unknowable, but by 1916 he must have known that what reputation he had in Britain was on the wane

Cenotaph for a queen

The Queen knew she was dying. Eleanor of Castile, Queen of England, wife to Edward I, had survived the births of sixteen children, a civil war, and a year on crusade with her husband. But by February 1290, at the age of 48, her declining health prompted her to make arrangements for her passage to the next life.