Made in the midlands

The city of Birmingham boomed during the Industrial Revolution, as all manner of businesses opened and industrial goods were manufactured. One famous pair of Brummies were entrepreneurs Edwin and Alfr

Corinne Whillock, sustainable jeweller and founder of Lulu & Boo

What do our beloved hostelries have to do with the discovery of DNA, the D-Day landings and The Lord of the Rings ? Everything, as Ashleigh Arnott discovers

“This tremendous aggregate of a book has many of the characteristics of a Festschrift assembled to honour some Great Influencer”: so, in 1973, the architectural historian Priscilla Metcalf began the f

I was a teenager during the Second World War, although the term teenager was not in use in those days. You were just a lad. What’s more, one often left school and became a worker at age 14, as I did i

Not so long ago, brooches were seen as a bit twee, even fuddy-duddy, says Jennifer Tonkin, co-head of the jewellery department at Bonhams UK. ‘Brooches were fashionable for centuries. Even up until th