Bevis Hillier

Architectural bonsai

  • Family Dolls’ Houses of the 18th and 19th Centuries

    Liza Antrim

    Cider House Books, pp. 256

In the summer of 1961 I was in my second year at Magdalen College, Oxford with rooms in the 18th-century New Buildings. One of my neighbours there was a quiet man called Jonathan Green-Armytage. Sitting out on the steps of the building’s colonnade, in the sun, we became friends.

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