By royal appointment

The history of the aristocracy is intertwined with the fascinating history of hunting, Eleanor Doughty discovered while researching her most recent book

Back in 2019, a Birmingam man scanned a Warwickshire field with a metal detector he’d purchased just six months previously. Near a drained pond, the machine alerted him to a miraculous discovery; a sp

These days, we associate autograph books with celebrities. But they originated in 16th-century Germany, where university students used to collect signatures from their classmates, and functioned as an

Theatres offered something for everyone in the 19th century, presenting recitals and opera, Shakespearean plays, or lively mixed programmes of comedy, song and dance that attracted enthusiastic – and

KATIE HINDMARCH-WATSON describes a sex scandal that consumed Queen Victoria’s grandson On 7 July 1889, a policeman arrested a sometime telegraph boy, Henry Newlove, at his mother’s house in Camden Tow

The age of noblesse oblige may have passed, but the aristocracy continues to play an important role in shaping and preserving life in the countryside, says Eleanor Doughty