You wouldn’t guess from the cover design—three songbirds silhouetted over swatches of picturesque Englishness—but Catherine Clarke’s A History of England in 25 Poems hits one of its sweet spots with a

EACH year, around 18 million tourists visit the Lake District, often to walk its stunning fells and valleys. Many people prefer the hills in winter when the tops are blanketed in snow. Although such s

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Celebrating 100 years of the BBC Shipping Forecast, Jane Russell takes us on a series of coastal cruises through the forecast sea areas, exploring some of the special places on offer in each of them

Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights is set to be the most talked-about film of the year

On a crisp winter morning in Hawkedon, West Suffolk, frost covers the village green and mist wreathes the corrugated fields beyond the church. Inside a cosy cottage alive with the chatter of birds, He