Originally built in 1703, as the London home of the Duke of Buckingham, Buckingham House was acquired by the newly married King George III in 1761, as an escape from the nearby St James’s Palace, the

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Matt James recalls a littleknown chapter in the history of the Cheshire venue, now more associated with motorsport

In the 2005 dystopian classic V for Vendetta, the protagonists set out to blow up parliament. There’s a simpler, if less dramatic, option available to future vigilantes: wait for it to collapse. For y

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

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