Love in an elevator

Most of us will never know what it’s like to live in a country pile – the kind with a mile-long carriage drive, acres of parkland dotted with deer, and gilded rooms stuffed with Chippendale furniture

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

Everyone’s looking. Million pound cars nearing Harrods on the Brompton Road invite an audience. But up front, splay legged under the hula hoop steering wheel, I’m invisible. That’s the thing about cha

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From third-class seats open to the elements, to the gold-plated interiors of Queen Victoria’s Royal Train, we mark this milestone anniversary with a nostalgic look through the ages

Oxford Libraries Architecture Geoffrey Tyack and Dan ...