‘i wept happy tears’

The Brontë Birthplace in Thornton has opened its doors - with a royal seal of approval

A short while after we married, Tom and I made the decision to leave behind our hectic London lives and relocate to the tranquillity of rural living. We wanted a slower pace of life where the countrys

Here’s how Jane Austen’s talent for storytelling continues to inspire TV and film versions of her novels

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

EVERY time I smell the sweet scent of September air, I am transported back to Alderley Cottage. I am walking up the garden path strewn with grass and twigs towards a faded blue painted door with a bro

There is perhaps no author quite so connected to their home county as Hardy is to Dorset. A tour of Hardy Country must start at the quintessentially perfect thatched cottage where he was born in 1840,