The history of the aristocracy is intertwined with the fascinating history of hunting, Eleanor Doughty discovered while researching her most recent book

In the first part of a new occasional series exploring heritage skills and crafts, Steam Railway looks at signwriting, which is both an art and a science, as MATT GREEN explains.

Back in 2019, a Birmingam man scanned a Warwickshire field with a metal detector he’d purchased just six months previously. Near a drained pond, the machine alerted him to a miraculous discovery; a sp

Ushering in the New Year are the Decorative Fair, brimming with good-quality antiques, and the London Art Fair, with its tradition of tipping artists in the early stages of their career

Though there are few rules that cannot be bent when it comes to decorating – apart from staying true to one’s own personal expression – it does help to turn to the experts for guidance. Specialists, w

There was a time when almost every arable field in England was bounded by a hedgerow. It has been estimated that between 1750 and 1850, around 2,000 miles of hedgerow were being planted every year, li