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Art & architecture Behind the scenes Collection
Conserving the Dubois desk
Thu 1 Aug 2019
In the Morning Room, this large black lacquer desk has been reinstalled after a two year project to conserve the degrading lacquer and clean the gilt-bronze mounts.
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Waddesdon's lost glasshouses
Thu 18 Jul 2019
An important part of Baron Ferdinand’s ‘Saturday to Monday’ parties would have been a visit to the glasshouses. Here we take a look back at Waddesdon's lost glasshouses, that were demolished in…
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Behind the scenes Birds Gardens
Record year for the breeding of critically endangered Rothschild’s myna
Mon 17 Jun 2019
Waddesdon’s aviary team are pleased to announce that three critically-endangered Rothschild’s myna chicks have recently fledged.
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Archive Behind the scenes Gardens
Bringing the outside in: The Conservatory at Waddesdon
Tue 16 Apr 2019
Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild had a keen interest in gardens, and the grounds he created at Waddesdon with the help of landscape architect Elie Lainé, were much commented on for their magnificence an…
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Behind the scenes Collection Rothschild family
10 unbelievable facts about Waddesdon
Mon 1 Apr 2019
While the rest of the world is constructing false truths on April Fool's Day, we thought we'd share some facts about Waddesdon that, though it's hard to believe, are in fact true.
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I volunteer because…
Mon 28 Jan 2019
We’d be lost without our team of volunteers, but have you ever wondered how volunteering could help you?
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