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Serial entrepreneur and Aera Instruments co-founder Jas Minhas can trace his horological roots back to the 1960s when his father set up a watch distribution business in Birmingham. Minhas, now 51, liv

In a John Behan bronze, collector Jacqueline O’Donovan, a child of the Irish diaspora, can sense the desperation of a starving people forced to flee their land

Astronomy has always carried a certain mystique. For many, it feels like an intimidating hobby, steeped in technical jargon and reliant on complex equipment. The new Bresser PushTo AR-80/400 smart tel

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 once-neglected patch of land in Duddingston, Edinburgh has been transformed into a welcoming green space by volunteers. Jock Tamson’s Gairden – named in honour of Duddingston’s Rev John Thomson, ins

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