Today, almost all performances can be digitally preserved. Go to a concert – Taylor Swift, Tom Jones or Bon Jovi – and most of the audience will be recording the experience on their phones. Plays, ope

Selina Gardner’s love of antiques began early, with childhood memories of rummaging in dusty second-hand shops, setting up a stall selling porcelain figures and old books outside her home at six years

Grandma’s engagement ring IN the pantheon of stories ...

Slippers have made their way out of the bedroom and into the street, finds Simon Mills–although not without precedent or formalities

A quest to find Horace Walpole’s missing Ottoman dagger unveiled a story of 16th-century diplomacy, Victorian theatre and a notorious heist

A major new exhibition will chronicle the life and style of Queen Elizabeth II. Rebecca Lowthorpe got a sneak peek at the extraordinary collection