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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Vanessa Thorpe

‘Evict the Charleston Scroungers’: row in Lewes over the Bloomsbury group’s legacy

Conversation Piece (1912) by Vanessa Bell, one of the Bloomsbury group
Conversation Piece (1912) by Vanessa Bell, one of the Bloomsbury group. Photograph: Estate of Vanessa Bell/University of Hull

When the doors closed on two art shows in the Sussex town of Lewes last weekend, a record number of people had crossed the threshold of Southover House to look at works by Picasso and Grayson Perry.

For 18 months, the former council office building has housed a pop-up outpost of Charleston, the former home of key members of the Bloomsbury group, which is nearby in the village of Firle.

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