From the battlefield to the stage

BOHEMIANS A BLOOMSBURY INGÉNUE The lives ...

When COUNTRY LIFE’s Henry Avray Tipping spotted a 17th-century four poster languishing in a Herefordshire attic in 1911, he set off a chain of events that saw the bed leave its ancestral home and land at The Met in New York

PEN NAMES An intriguing exploration of the literary pseudonym ...

Heirs and Graces: A History of the Modern ...

Samuel Pepys’s self-incriminating diaries

The Americans are even more prone than the British to the biographical doorstopper as a way in which to honour the lives, minute by minute, of their famous dead. Walter Isaacson and Jon Meacham are am