Until just after 10pm, it was a normal Saturday night at The Spaniard’s Inn on Hampstead Heath. Glasses clinking, the background radiation of chatter and high spirits, staff dashing to and fro because

Three women share their stories of festive singing

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I had watched Richard III meet a bloody end at Bosworth, come face to face with a plague victim, stood in the shadow of a mighty trebuchet, and been put on trial for my life. And it was barely lunchti

It was 1963 and things were changing – but had Judith been left behind?

Meet the people who transform our beloved buildings into festive wonderlands each Christmas