Remember your ‘roots’ this Halloween
Why not return to your ‘roots’ this Halloween and rediscover the humble turnip?
Long before the pumpkin became the Halloween decoration of choice, people across the British Isles carved scary faces into turnips and placed...
Portals to the past: The history of London’s blue plaques
Scattered across London in stately prominence and secret corners, the blue plaques scheme brings buildings to life
Words: Jessica Tooze
On a quiet Chelsea street between the River Thames and the bustling King’s Road, the odd passer-by...
Royal Deeside: Scotland’s Victorian Heritage Trail
Janice Hopper follows the Victorian Heritage Trail in Royal Deeside, Scotland, to discover the land that Queen Victoria fell hopelessly in love with
When Queen Victoria wanted somewhere to escape to, it was to Royal Deeside in...
Edinburgh Castle history: 900 years protecting Scotland’s capital
Scotland’s biggest attraction still stands proud above its capital city 900 years after its inception
It’s estimated there were once around 3,000 castles in Scotland but one stands head and shoulders above the rest: Edinburgh Castle's...
Fact or fiction: Famous literary homes in Britain
75 years since the publication of Brideshead Revisited, we tour the ‘real’ Brideshead, and stop off at other locations thought to have inspired the most famous homes in literature
Words: Eleanor Doughty
The tale of Brideshead...
Baroque Britain
From Blenheim to St Paul’s, the British Baroque movement gave us some of our most eye-catching buildings and interiors. We explore the legacy of this exciting era
No visitor to Blenheim Palace in the Oxfordshire...
Walk in the footsteps of Charlotte Brontë
To mark the bicentenary of birth of Charlotte Brontë, we bring you some of the cosy Yorkshire places she would have known and where you can now stay.
Britain’s top 20 stately homes
Whatever your idea of the perfect historic house – imposing architecture, beautiful interiors or glorious gardens – you'll find it here. We peek through the (gilded) keyhole at 20 of the county's finest manors,...
The Auckland Project
Bishop Auckland, a small Northeast town with big ambitions, is fast becoming a cultural hub
Bishop Auckland, County Durham, was once the playground of the second most powerful man in England. Powerful men don’t usually...
History of Suffolk county’s architecture
The architecture of the county of Suffolk is a mix of colour and character, with timber-frame and flint, pargetting and thatched roofs, moats and chimney stacks
By Jenny Woolf
Scattered around the flinty-grey churches of Suffolk,...
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