The Gainsborough Silk Weaving Company has an illustrious past and fascinating present, as Charlotte Reather discovers

In February 2009, C&SC published a Your classic story of my purchase of a Ferrari 348tb, which I took to my home in Spain. I ended by stating: ‘I can’t see myself ever letting go of it.’ Inevitably, t

IF ONLY LOTUS hadn’t launched the groundbreaking Elise, the Renault Sport Spider might have stood a chance. Alas, the genius of the game-changing two-seat roadster from Norfolk left this considerably

By january mountain hares have turned almost fully white, apart from their contrasting ear tips, which seem to have been dipped in black paint. Seeing these charismatic cold-adapted mammals is a highl

Claire Gaudion is one of the last makers of traditional Guernsey fishing baskets and is keeping this endangered coastal craft alive, one willow weave at a time

Within just a few weeks, I had nearly been wee’d on by a naked mole-rat, waited for five hours for a few horses to poo and smelt the sulphurous pong of some seafloor sludge collected from the depths o