Just how many bayeux tapestries were there?

The Gainsborough Silk Weaving Company has an illustrious past and fascinating present, as Charlotte Reather discovers

The Ear of the Beholder Huon Mallalieu (Thomas ...

The Cathedral Church of St Peter, Exeter, Devon, part I

Tartan check is indelibly associated with Scotland’s identity, but it took centuries to get there. While not a true tartan, the earliest Scottish check is a simple weave in undyed wool, c250 AD and fo

Andrew Graham-Dixon tells Carla Passino why he thinks we have read Vermeer wrong all along– and who the Girl with a Pearl Earring really is

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