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Rydal Mount, near Ambleside, is where poet William Wordsworth spent the latter half of his life. The site was awarded £31,330 in the latest round of the Government’s Culture Recovery Fund. The money is being used to make a number of improvements at Rydal Mount ahead of its scheduled reopening on May 17, including to access and ventilation. New tables and seating will be installed in the tearoom and will extend on to the forecourt of the house. And, throughout the house, there will be recordings of members of the Wordsworth family reading some of the best-loved poems. Christophe...

More than 2,700 organisations have been awarded money. “Our record-breaking Culture Recovery Fund has already helped thousands of culture and heritage organisations across the country survive the biggest crisis they’ve ever faced,” said Mr Dowden. “Now we’re staying by their side as they prepare to welcome the public back through their doors - helping our cultural gems plan for reopening and thrive in the better times ahead.” The funding was reserved in the first round of the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund to allow the Government to respond to the changing public hea...

Scrooge, Oliver Twist, jilted Miss Havisham, David Copperfield, Gradgrind, Lady Deadlock, all of these characters are known even to those who have never opened a novel by world-famous and never-out-of-print Charles Dickens. He lives on. He's 209 today and his books and his life still fascinate. Married at 24, by 40, Dickens had 10 children, seven sons and three daughters. He had an affair, left his wife, wanted scarlet geraniums on his coffin, asked that his horse be shot the day that he himself died and wanted to be buried in a local churchyard in Kent, "in an inexpensive, unostentatious, an...

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