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Exhibition of the week Hawai‘i: a kingdom crossing ...

Samurai rose to be global emblems of honour and courage, but their story doesn’t always match the myths they told about themselves, as a British Museum exhibition shows

Amateur botanist John Bradby Blake and his collaborators never completed their illustrated record of Chinese flora, but they still stoked Britain’s passion for the Asian country’s plants

Although I realise that it is a favourite pastime among historians, particularly the British, to demonstrate that our idols have feet of clay, I must protest at the inclusion of Winston Churchill in t

Rarely does a ‘working’ diamond tiara come up for sale, so interest sky-rocketed when a tiara worn by Virginia Fortune Ryan Ogilvy – Dowager Countess of Airlie and Lady of the Bedchamber to the late Q