‘the oldest old thing in england’

Quaint relic or symbol of bad taste, garden gnomes have gone in and out of fashion. They are generally thought to have originated in Switzerland and Germany in the late 18th century. Then, in 1841, a

How The Pickwick Papers revolutionized Victorian publishing

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Take a good dollop of Victorian innovation, add a fistful of classics, season it liberally with creative genius and you’ll cook up the very British art of literary illustration. Carla Passino charts its history and discovers that it still thrives

The Restoration of Charles II heralded an outstanding era of scientific discovery and a flowering of the Arts for which Britain has, rightly, continued to be famous. Here we suggest who, in the reign of Charles III, is continuing such work today

The famous Cottingley fairy photographs rate as the greatest psychic photographic hoax of the 20th century. Branded “the first deepfake” by the History Channel,1 they have fascinated audiences for gen