As several readers may know, my day job is looking after Chedworth Roman Villa in the Cotswolds. Chedworth sits comfortably within a region that supported some of the most prosperous rural estates in Britannia. Yet the world that sustained and shaped the villa extended far beyond the Coln valley.
BOOK REVIEWS
Stephen Coan’s The Buried Man can only be described as magisterial. It is the culmination of decades of patient, methodical, and deeply informed scholarship. Coan has lived with, traced, and tracked H. Rider Haggard for much of his adult life, and this monumental volume represents the distillation of that long engagement. It is unlikely to be surpassed for a very long time.
BLUE PLAQUES
The church was one of the first churches in Rosettenville, built with locally quarried natural stone that was provided by Leo Rosettenstein, the township owner after whom the area was named. The building dates from the early 1900’s, and was designed by the famous firm Baker and Fleming. Both the interior and exterior of the building remain in pristine condition.