Dress to impress

Slippers have made their way out of the bedroom and into the street, finds Simon Mills–although not without precedent or formalities

Over a long career, John Hardman has specialised to great effect in teasing out, from speeches, decrees, minutes, memoranda, letters, diaries and unsent drafts, the varied moods of French political de

Hannah Betts prefers parading pelts to donning dun uniforms

Today, almost all performances can be digitally preserved. Go to a concert – Taylor Swift, Tom Jones or Bon Jovi – and most of the audience will be recording the experience on their phones. Plays, ope

The cars at Hampton Court’s concours event combine the weird, the wonderful and the very expensive. And then there’s the people…

The English House: A History in Eight Buildings ...