‘Fashion on the Ration’ at Imperial War Museum
To mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in 1945, IWM London is launching a major new exhibition Fashion on the Ration, exploring how fashion survived and even flourished...
Valentine’s Day: the true origins of this romantic tradition
Valentine's Day may be a celebration with pre-Christian origins, but Geoffrey Chaucer was the first to connect the tradition with romantic love...
The celebration of Saint Valentine's Day, also known as Valentine's Day or the...
Wales Millennium Centre’s all-female ‘Richard III’
Wales Millennium Centre to take on Shakespeare's famed play Richard III with an all-female cast in an unconventional theatre space
In an interesting twist of which Shakespeare himself might approve, an all-female take on the Great...
Edition of Magna Carta worth up to £10m discovered in a council’s archives
An early edition of Magna Carta has been found during a search of a council’s archives after it lay forgotten in a Victorian scrapbook for over a century.
An early version of Magna Carta dating back to...
Four surviving copies of Magna Carta reunited
BRITAIN was lucky enough to see all four original surviving copies of Magna Carta on display side-by-side at the British Library in London.
In June 1215 King John signed a charter at Runnymede on the Thames that...
New screenings of the hottest shows in town at One Aldwych hotel
One Aldwych hotel launches Live at One, a new season of thrilling evenings featuring gastronomy and live screenings from the best of London's theatres
Live at One, a new season launched by One Aldwych hotel, is offering...
Churchill’s funeral procession recreated 50 years on
Today a remarkable reenactment of the funeral route that took the body of wartime leader Sir Winston Churchill along the Thames from the Tower of London to Westminster will be recreated to mark the 50th...
Fans of Wolf Hall flock to taste Henry VIII’s custard tarts
A bakery that serves up custard tarts made to the same recipe as those served up in King Henry VIII’s royal kitchen has seen a surge of interest following the success of the BBC’s new...
Churchill Valentine’s tea at Blenheim Palace
Blenheim Palace launches a limited edition Sir Winston Churchill Valentine’s Tea, available for a week from 14 February 2015.
Blenheim Palace, the magnificent ancestral home of Sir Winston Churchill, is launching an indulgent afternoon tea fit for...
Table belonging to the Brontë sisters returns to the family home
After a long absence, the table on which Charlotte Brontë wrote Jane Eyre has been brought back to the family home of in Haworth, Yorkshire
A mahogany drop-leaf table belonging to the Brontë family and...
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