Saltings Pottery Guild pairs young makers with master potters
Twelve young makers will spend nine months at the wheel beside experienced potters in the marsh villages, in a scheme the guild hopes will keep its craft alive for another generation.
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Arts, culture and events
Folk song archive of 3,000 recordings from the Asher Valley digitised and opened to all
Reel-to-reel tapes made in farmhouses and pubs from the 1950s onwards can now be heard free of charge, after a three-year project by the Central Library.
Twelve new murals brighten Northfield underpasses once avoided after dark
Local artists and schoolchildren have painted 12 pedestrian tunnels, and residents say the routes now feel safer and are used more.
Ceramics in the workshop: from clay to form
Clay taking shape on the wheel, pots on market stalls and thousand-year-old pieces in museum cases.
In defence of reading slowly
In an age of speed and summaries, losing yourself unhurriedly in a book has become a rarer and more precious experience.
Markets and street food: a riot of colour on the stalls
From spices to fresh vegetables, scenes from markets around the world.
For bookworms: frames from shelves that overflow
Books piled to the ceiling, leather bindings and old editions with yellowing pages.
The world's libraries: domes, shelves and silence
From Paris to Dublin, Melbourne to Adelaide, the architecture of reading rooms.