Can dandyism survive the twenty-first century without losing its meaning? This beautifully produced volume by Rose Callahan and Nathaniel Adams…
Early Warning Signs, Part 3. Before screens, schedules and constant supervision, childhood meant wandering wherever curiosity led. In this evocative…
A Welsh estuary wearing Mediterranean colours, a Jacobean ceiling rescued from demolition, a stone ship, Noël Coward, The Prisoner and…
What separates a visionary invention from a ridiculous one? - Discover at Eccentric Contraptions at Nuneaton Museum & Art Gallery,…
Beau Brummell transformed elegance into an art form and wit into a weapon. Friend and rival of the Prince Regent,…
In which the author endures seven days of a temperature absolutely unacceptable for Oxfordshire, and tries everything to escape, overcome…
Early Warning Signs, Part 2 . A corrugated tin roof, a wooden bench and the sound of rain become the…
One night at Ferrières : 12 December 1972, an invitation you had to read in a mirror, a château lit…
He spent sixty years making art out of movement — steel rods that crept in and out of their own…
In the winter of 1973, the future King came through our doors in pursuit of the three silliest men in…
How does an eccentric begin? In this opening chapter of his memoir, Colin reflects on childhood, solitary curiosity and the…
In front, it wasn’t the dunes; in front, was the sea. He ran into the flood. “But I was outside,…
He emptied his grandfather's shed to build an imaginary chocolate-biscuit machine. Forty years on, he is still doing much the…
One of them wrote a Reformation rap battle between Luther and Leo X. The other canoed under the Rialto singing…
For generations, Britain's greatest pubs were remembered not just for their breweries but for the extraordinary personalities behind the bar.…