Not to be sneezed at

Gin, witches, regicide, boats, nudists, an Egyptian curse, Spitfires, the invention of windsurfing and more writers and vineyards than you can shake a fishing rod at: this beloved English county has it all. Here are 13 stories you may never have heard about Hampshire

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

British eccentricity at its best shone in a series of sales earlier this year that encompassed a fruitwood hand holding an apple, two puzzle pipes and an unusual wooden snuffbox inset with bone panels

THE British love affair with biscuits goes back a long way. There are recorded uses of the word “biscuit” in Middle English as far back as the 14th century. It’s derived from the Latin bis coctus, mea

Our round-up of the funny, fascinating and unusual stories this fortnight

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