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by Kate Holt (Author)
New Hall is one of the oldest inhabited moated houses in England. Built of local sandstone and warm Midlands brick, it sits in what was once the vast hunting forests of Sutton Chase, in the ancient county of Warwickshire. Sir Nicholas Pevsner, the great 20th century British architectural historian, recorded New Hall as 'a major mansion in a moat'.
Author Biography
Kate Holt is an internationally acclaimed photojournalist, and the director and founder of Arete - a media and communications agency that specialises in humanitarian storytelling, media strategy, content production and tailored training. She visited New Hall as a child, when it belonged to her godfather's family, the Owens. Charlotte Eagar is an award winning foreign correspondent, and also a filmmaker, novelist, and communications consultant. She is co-producer and co-founder of the Trojan Women Project, combined drama therapy and multi-media strategic communications project for Syrian refugees.[2] Scooter man - the short rom-com directed by Kirsten Cavendish, which Eagar co-wrote and produced with her husband William Stirling and Kirsten Cavendish - won Audience-rated Best of the Fest at the LA Comedy Festival (2010) and Palm Springs (2010) and was selected, amongst other festivals, for Cannes Short Film Corner (2010).[3]
