Chronographs are inextricably linked with motor sport these days, but five years after Louis Moinet invented the function in 1816, Louis XVIII’s watchmaker Nicolas Rieussec developed a contraption tha

ORTONA, ITALY 20-27 DECEMBER 1943

I enjoyed reading the interesting article by Caitlin Ellis on the rivals for the throne in 1066 (October). In particular, it was fascinating to read about Edgar Ætheling’s claim, which was surely the

In the latest of his occasional series on greatest huntsmen he knew personally, Alastair Jackson recounts the life of the popular Sidney Bailey, who hunted the VWH for four decades

Q My great uncle, James Athey Hunt (here seated on the left), was from Stocktonon-Tees and would have been 18 in February 1916. He was at Salisbury Plain during the First World War, but I have no idea

A cyanotype of a fern leaf by early photographer Anna Atkins soared above its estimate in Surrey and ‘the most striking likeness’ of Horatio Nelson is drawing every eye at the LAPADA Fair