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Imagining Little Red Riding Hood
Collections, Social HistorySocial History Curator Kitty Ross explores the tale of Little Red Riding Hood and it's many illustrations, in light of the Fairy Tales and Fantasy exhibition at Abbey House Museum.

‘Iris’ (1886) by John Atkinson Grimshaw
Collections, Fine ArtLocal historian Eveleigh Bradford explores one of Atkinson Grimshaw's most entrancing paintings

No Happily Ever After – Nursery Rhymes and Political Cartoons
(OLD) Abbey House Museum, (OLD) Archive, (OLD) Behind the Scenes, (OLD) Collections, (OLD) Ephemera, (OLD) Exhibitions, (OLD) Social HistoryCharacters, settings and stories from fairytales often pop up in unexpected places...