Q&a

Forget the standard double: country-house sleeping arrangements have undergone all sorts of intriguing (and eyebrow-raising) shifts throughout history, observes Melanie Cable-Alexander

The piece I’d never part with

Sennowe Park, Norfolk, part 2 The home of Charles and Virginia Temple-Richards

A cut-crystal bed, with associated mirrors and throne, sparkled at auction earlier this month, but no glamour could beat the prize that was the Union Flag flown by HMS Spartiate at the Battle of Trafalgar

Where newspapers came from

The institution that was the very quintessence of an Oxbridge college is in grave danger of disappearing