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Drawing on the authors' own experiences as two working artists

Badham and James Ravinet

covering: getting outside and being kind to the Earth

It’s a dispatch from the sidelines and a love letter to popular song

The Invention of Essex: The Making of an English County by Tim Burrows book These masks are hand-made ofEssex. A county both famous and infamous: the stuff of tabloid headlines and reality television, consumer culture and right wing politicians. England's dark id. But beyond the sensationalist headlines lies a strange and secret place with a rich history: of smugglers and private islands, artists and radicals, myths and legends. It's where the Peasants' Revolt began and the Empire Windrush docked. And from political movements like Brexit to cultural