Enthusiasms

Museum of Liverpool /13 September 2025-29 March 2026 / liverpoolmuseums.org.uk Bronze Age gold, Viking silver hoards and Roman coins (above) star in a spectacular display of archaeological treasure. S

Your interesting feature about the role of medieval warhorses in shaping British history (August) reminded me of a subsequent occasion in which horsepower became a critical factor. In April 1660, with

I can just remember trolleybuses as our last service trundled down the tracks in the autumn of 1966. My grandfather called them “trackless” buses as he remembered the old tramcar “rattlers”. This love

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

Chartarumludentist Anthony Wilkins [FT458:63] may wish to visit China. While living there in 2005 I found so many discarded playing cards on the ground that I was able to assemble a unique deck of 52

August has a reputation among followers of the natural world for being something of a non-event, but, with a sickle in his hand, John Lewis-Stempel is granted a glimpse of a magical underworld in a field of ripe wheat