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The Treasures of English Churches: New book shows amazing murals, monuments, relics and carvings

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Explore England’s places of worship and you’ll find masterpieces of design, some of the world’s most beautiful stained-glass windows and a host of astonishing murals, monuments and carvings spanning over a thousand years of turbulent history – as a fascinating new book reveals. The National Churches Trust teamed up with prolific church photographer Matthew Byrne … Read more

Artists transform an abandoned Stalin-era Russian gulag by painting murals of its lost residents

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Artists have tried to breathe new life into ghost town built on Stalin’s orders in Siberia. The spooky Gulag outpost of Kadykchan was officially closed after the fall of the Soviet Union and a coal mine explosion in 1996 which killed six. Now it has been repopulated by pictures of its lost residents in a … Read more