WE HAVEN’T EVEN sat down and Will Pembroke is already infecting us with his enthusiasm. He is in his office at Wilton House, the Wiltshire stately home that, as William Alexander Sidney Herbert, 18th

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The race is on to complete the restoration of the first car to reach more than 200mph, ahead of its trip to the United States. Dismantling the front engine has revealed more problems than expected in

The new Turner Prize (this time, for craftspeople) ...

Across the realms of music, theatre, film and television, the beginning of the year is when the best artists, actors and productions are garlanded with awards for recent work. The Golden Globes kick o

The acquisition of houses by the National Trust from the 1930s had less to do with the impoverishment of aristocratic families than the industrial wealth of bachelor donors, as Michael Hall reveals