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Beguiling portrait photographs showcase spectacular multi-coloured garments worn by Mongolian nomads

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Beguiling portrait photographs showcase spectacular multi-coloured garments worn by Mongolian nomads – and handed down through the generations Photographer Alessandra Meniconzi travelled from Switzerland to Central Mongolia to set up the shoot  She said: ‘In the past the kings and queens of the Mongolian nomads used to wear these traditional clothes’  The photographer ‘strives to … Read more

Wordsworth, Coleridge – and a biography so beguiling it’s poetry in itself

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For just over a year, two of the greatest poets in the English language lived within a few miles of one another, in the Quantock Hills in Somerset. They were both bristling with energy. William Wordsworth, aged 27, had once walked 3,000 miles through France and Switzerland. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, three years his junior, thought … Read more