Lavish furniture and ornate paintings from a manor house in Hertfordshire have gone on sale for thousands of pounds. Items include four paintings of the Arkwright family worth £230,000.
Have you ever ventured into the Octagon, which used to be the Queen Mary library, for meetings or lectures and has your eye started wandering around the room? In doing so your gaze may have rested on several busts clinging to the edge of life on the balcony, looking down on us. This week the focus is on Lord Byron. A series by Special Collections Information Assistant Anne Marie McHarg.