Globally acclaimed English tile-maker celebrates 50th anniversary ‘Each tile we make is a piece of art,’ says Doug Watson, who founded an artisanal workshop handcrafting and hand-painting exquisite ce

The acquisition of houses by the National Trust from the 1930s had less to do with the impoverishment of aristocratic families than the industrial wealth of bachelor donors, as Michael Hall reveals

So Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo in October 1876, charting the latest instalment of the Holbein cult. He was renting a room in Isleworth, west London, still hoping for a religious career

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The new Turner Prize (this time, for craftspeople) ...

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