Best foot forward

Earlier this summer, at one of Billie Eilish’s O2 Arena gigs, I witnessed tens of thousands of young girls, many of them queer, screaming the ‘Birds of a Feather’ singer’s name in tribal unison — and

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

From Bertie Wooster’s dressing gown to Mr Darcy’s shirt, Deborah Nicholls-Lee unpicks the art of period costume at world-famous historical costumier Cosprop

Louis Comfort Tiffany, son of the famous jeweller, was born into one of the most prominent families in America. He originally trained as an artist, but developed an interest in the manufacture of glas

Comedy historian Robert Ross pays tribute to some of the finest and funniest, but often overlooked, names in showbiz

On a summer’s day earlier this year, Evan McPherson, senior valuer at Auctioneum, was carrying out a standard valuation at a house clearance in Bristol. Inside, he found the usual collection of furnit