A music-hall star’s scrapbook, 1918

A tree bunny put on Facebook by the Small Press Rescue Centre. We are always glad to receive pictures of spontaneous forms and figures, or any curious images. Send them (with your postal address) to F

PAINTING NOSTALGIA Artist Polly Mabel Nicolaou creates ...

On 10 August 1948 Felix Hull became Berkshire’s first county archivist. He was working out of the basement of Reading’s old Shire Hall, now the Roseate Hotel, and collections under his care eventually

In July 1575, Robert Dudley enlisted mythological figures to convince Elizabeth I to wed him. Exactly 450 years later, artist Lindsey Mendick reveals how and why she reinterpreted their encounter in her installation for Kenilworth Castle

GROWING UP IN FERRYHILL, County Durham, was a struggle for drag queen Tess Tickle. “I would never have dared say that I was gay — being here, it would’ve resulted in two black eyes, broken ribs and pr

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