Grand designs

Discover how the UK’s country houses defied the odds to survive as historic monuments and cultural centres

Shaping both the land and the lives of those who built them, viaducts and aqueducts are monuments to ambition, sacrifice, and change

Glamis Castle, Angus, part 2 The seat of the Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

Knowing this was going to be their forever home, Dawn and Graham Hillier put heart and soul into every aspect of their new-build project

Home to carriages, coachmen and craftspeople, Buckingham Palace’s Royal Mews is a village in the heart of London. Matthew Dennison takes a look behind the stable doors of this great institution as it marks its 200th birthday

Norwich Castle curator DR TIM PESTELL takes us behind the walls of the landmark’s revamp