a wall painting at Adlington Hall ...which chronicles our relationship with the Ottoman sultans - not entirely what you expect from a countr

It’s Napoleon’s birthday! Light the candles this 15 August. Why is this important? Because, in Britain, we are still just a little bit obses

Things get lost in big houses - put away by one generation and forgotten by the next. Just occasionally, a chest in the attics reveals an ex

I've just visited Kettle’s Yard, a house in Cambridge, once home to the art curator Jim Ede and left by him to the University in 1966....

I’ve been writing about miniatures recently for Historic Houses. Seek out the exhibition ‘Elizabethan Treasures’ at the National Portrait...