Not to be sneezed at

Heirs and Graces: A History of the Modern ...

THE phrase ‘as keen as mustard’, first recorded ...

With France’s new smoking ban now in force, our columnist – himself partial to the odd cigarette – considers the attitudes of younger folk to this once-popular habit

In short, yes: the Victorians did indeed think eating mummified remains pilfered from ancient Egyptian tombs was a good idea, although they did not come up with the idea themselves. The morbid practic

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

Samuel Pepys’s self-incriminating diaries