The Bible of British Taste – NEW Issue no.4 autumn / winter 2025/6
In this bumper 2025 issue no 4 of the BoBT magazine we bring you brand new stories and three very ancient houses, witchery, green magic and folk tales, magical painting in Samuel Palmer’s Valley of Vision, BEST BRITISH BRAND BABYCHAM and the marvellous Dame Barbara Cartland’s boudoir - to say nothing of her extraordinary writing room, memorialised by her granddaughter Charlotte di Carcacci and photographed by her great-granddughter Claudia Legge. Eddy and Vita Sackville-West, and Harold Nicholson are back in the gallery with James Lees-Milne and the legendary decorator John Fowler in Michael Hall’s enthralling alternative history of the Queer National Trust. Read Professor Ronald Hutton on Modern Druids and furbish up your splash-backs with some Modern Druid tiles from Not Quite Past. Chateau Orlando’s Luke Edward Hall does Arthurian, Sean Anthony Pritchard does the flowers, Arthur Parkinson does the fowls and the artist Mark Hearld interrogates the landscape of West Cornwall. Lally Macbeth, founder of the Folk Archive, does folk-art in the Lost Folk and the Stitch-craft, Lachie Stewart does Avebury's Standing Stones in 7 shades of British Weather (also available as a set of postcards), art historian and white witch Gemma Rolls-Bentley, Luke Edward Hall and Simon Costin, Keeper of the Museum of Magic and Witchcraft each tell of their ritual and their craft. Peter York does Dictator Chic!
105 glorious colour pages! Founder-editor R A Guilding, contributing editor Luke Edward Hall, art director Jack Henshall, contributing photographers Mark Hearld , Luke Edward Hall and the marvellous Claudia Legge
LAST FEW COPIES The Bible of British Taste – Issue no.3 autumn / winter 2024/5
Issue no.3 Autumn /winter 2024 brings you brand new stories, folk tales, legends and marvellous curiosities : healing wells and holy wells in West Cornwall; a true story - of 'Orlando' and love-triangulation - featuring Virginia Woolf, Vita and Eddy Sackville-West, by the chatelain of Knole, Robert Sackville West; polemical drawing by Biennale-artist Bedwyr Williams; Corbin Shaw! ; altered states, psychedelic medicine and a thrice-moated Tudor tower-house in the marshlands of Otmoor; home, sweet home by The World of Interiors' greatest stylist Jessica Hayns; performing Welsh corgis courtesy of Charlie McCormick; Rowan Williams, archbishop and poet, introducing this issue’s Welsh Odyssey and the legends of the Mabinogi; Chateau Orlando’s founder Luke Edward Hall on excursion to the fashion-fantasy gardens of Clough Williams-Ellis, creator of Portmeirion’s fairyland; the making of brand new Village Green magazine by its creator Jake Williams; David Dawson’s pastoral-paintings; ‘Wales is Not for Sale' and why Hiraeth doesn't mean what we think it means; an ancient dwelling house in Eryri ... and more writing, including one of the most beautiful [true] stories in the world - 'The Bank Manager and the Holy Grail.' 110 glorious colour pages! Founder-editor R A Guilding, contributing editor Luke Edward Hall, art director Jack Henshall, contributing photographer Howard Sooley
