The gavel is poised to fall on the sale of 29 ordinary objects: including a handmade key, a book, a pair of sunglasses and an ID. Yet their sale raises an extraordinary question: when does a revered leader’s legacy become so central to a nation’s identity that it can no longer be treated as private property?
BOOK REVIEWS
Michael Stevenson’s Samuel Daniell: A Life of an Artist in Southern Africa and Ceylon, 1799–1811 stands as a work of rare distinction: sumptuous in production, meticulous in scholarship, and deeply rewarding in intellectual substance.
BLUE PLAQUES
House Suzman was designed in 1937 for Saul Suzman and his wife Betty Sonnenberg by J C Cook and Cowen in the Spanish Mission style. Sonnenberg was the daughter of politician and industrialist Max Sonnenberg, and Suzman an importer of tobacco. Saul and Betty’s daughter, Janet, would become a giant of the British stage.