The long debate

Marble Hill, Richmond-upon-Thames, Greater London In the care of English Heritage

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

Exhibition of the week Between Sleeping and Waking ...

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

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

Carthage burned for six days. After three long years of siege, in the spring of 146 BC Roman soldiers finally broke through the city’s defences and began to slaughter the population. But still the Car