A mechanic among the gentlemen

Samuel Pepys’s self-incriminating diaries

Heirs and Graces: A History of the Modern ...

Does a newly found Nicholas Hilliard miniature portray Shakespeare’s patron the Earl of Southampton?

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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

Home to a marquess and an RAF air crew – and believed to be the birthplace of a Queen – this red-brick Jacobean mansion contains stories spanning centuries