One day this month saw the sale of the medals of a naval war hero and the collection of a long-serving art critic with a keen eye for pictures

Fitting-out time is here again. Because I winter up in the Baltic where the sea still sometimes freezes, my season doesn’t really start until May. It was different when I berthed my 22ft wooden sloop

A Coldstream Guards private earned this honour at Inkerman before becoming Florence Nightingale’s personal bodyguard

I was a teenager during the Second World War, although the term teenager was not in use in those days. You were just a lad. What’s more, one often left school and became a worker at age 14, as I did i

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Dave Lewis recalls a trip to explore the National Museum of Wales’ collection of rare and unusual fish, and asks why these sorts of catches seem to be becoming more common