Magical machines

From George Stubbs’s golden vision of the labourer’s place in society to Ford Madox Brown’s heroically monumental celebration of manual labour, artists gave individual interpretations of work, as Michael Hall reveals

Since my first visit in 1982, four-up in a road-test Jaguar XJ-S HE, Rétromobile has regularly blown me away. The range of incredible Gallic machines always make this Paris show a much-awaited fixture

It is nothing new to turn a large private collection of classics into a museum, though it is less common in the UK and Europe than the USA (where the tax benefits can be considerable). Even so, to do

These quirky museums prove you can find a riveting story behind almost anything

Discover how Biba earned its spot as the brand that epitomises 1960s and 1970s fashion, sparking a revolution in how people shopped. An exhibition looking at how fashion phenomenon Biba blossomed to b

That’s marque historian Clare Hay’s verdict regarding the boat-tail body on 1927 Bentley 3 Litre chassis TN1564, and it’s no idle hyperbole. This ultimate development of the ‘skiff ’ body style (origi