In a kingdom recently divided by faith, Elizabeth I’s government turned to espionage to defend the Protestant crown. This is ...

Explore how modern Britons sought signs of divine order in a collapsing world – from searching snails’ shells to eating moles ...

Folger Theatre Announces the Plays and Playwrights for the Fourth Annual Reading Room Festival This year's staged readings expand into more genres, including plays with music and theater for young ...

Wild Dark Shore. By Charlotte McConaghy. Flatiron Books; 320 pages; $28.99. Castle Point Books; £24.99 Dominic Salt lives on ...

Folger Theatre at the Folger Shakespeare Library revealed the plays and playwrights for the fourth annual Reading Room ...

SHRINES OF GAIETY (2022) is the story of the formidable Nellie Coker, proprietor of a string of glittering Soho nightclubs and the mother of six. The novel is populated with bright young things, ...

Join the Country Living team for an exclusive garden tour, talk and lunch at Chatsworth House with internationally-renowned landscape architect Tom Stuart-Smith next spring.

Celebrating the publication of Journal of a Man Unknown, I am publishing a series of pieces by Gillian Tindall. Today you can read about her quest for Flower & Dean St where the protagonist of her ...

But this vision of genius is a poor fit for many great artists, and it tends to obscure what makes them and their work special. Take William Shakespeare, who is often portrayed as a carouser, downing ...

With big-hitter London right on the doorstep, Essex gets short shrift. But if you’ve never spent much time exploring the ...

The chintz and patchwork quilt, made around 1800, is embroidered with the name 'Sally Filkes Warminster Wilts' at each corner. Tennants Auctioneers in Leyburn, North Yorkshire, will auction it during ...

Les Arts Florissants performed a concert in dialogue with an exhibition devoted to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher; Sonnambula, the museum’s ensemble-in-residence, collaborated with singer Davóne ...