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Feb 25, 202634:47Arts

In this episode of Curious Objects, host Benjamin Miller is joined by Art Historian and author extraordinaire, Verity Babbs to talk about the wondrous world of William Morris’s wallpaper. Verity Babbs received a degree i...

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