Margaret Brecknell on England’s first international fashion designer Lady Duff-Gordon THE name of Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon, may not be familiar to many today, but she once reigned supreme over the world of haute couture and revolutionised...
Jane Clarke is such a Grand National superfan that she established a museum at Aintree MENTION the Grand National and people will realise you are referring to the best-known steeplechase in the world. Many will remember gathering around their...
Faith Eckersall on Margaret Calvert and her contribution to our highways and byways PEACEFULLY munching on the buttercups at her Warwickshire farm, Patience the cow could never have dreamed that her likeness would one day become familiar...
Sea squirts for dinner, Jaguar and its rebrand and the tale of the Bodmin Moor monument
Isobel King meets the scarletcoated ex-servicemen and women of Chelsea WHAT’S this?” Chelsea Pensioner Jack Frost remarks as he taps and shakes out his medals, resplendent on his iconic Scarlets. “Confetti!” He laughs as it flutters to the...
Places to embrace the best of the period, according to Claire Saul THE Regency: an eventful and enthralling period, years marked by magnificence and elegance, social and political discontent, creative brilliance in the arts, conflict,...
