Lord Fitzgerald b1763, swapped nobility for revolution. From England to France and eventually to Erin, the son of the Duke of Leinster...

Ashe House in Musbury Devon was once a majestic Tudor pile built in the mid-1580s but badly burned by Royalists in 1644. It was rebuilt...

Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, only daughter of the future George IV and Caroline of Brunswick, died after suffering a still-birth...

Britain’s only serving PM to be assassinated was Spencer Perceval, aged 49, shot though the chest on 11 May 1812. His killer, John...

The romantic ruins of Elgin Cathedral in Moray Inverness never fail to rouse up the past. Founded 1224 & suffering repeated destructive...

Artist Thomas Gainsborough (d1788) needs little introduction - think of ‘Blue Boy’ or ‘Mr & Mrs Andrews’. This masterpiece of ‘Miss...

The proud livery companies of London first touched the city nearly 900 years ago. But did you know they still thrive? Joined by modern...

Sadly never far from grave news, the ‘Holy City’ of Jerusalem (Yerushaláyim/Al-Quds) perpetuates its chequered, fought-over existence....

William Caxton brought the recently invented printing press to England in the 1470s and soon produced exquisite pages like this. Taken...

Landseer’s subjects deliver social history, animal husbandry and the power of the horse that commands human service and fellow animal...

Edward Thompson Davis’ evocative illustration of Victorian life

From Charge of the Light Brigade to the humble cardie

When your home IS a castle

"I do not know, says the Great Bell of Bow"

Sir Robert Peel gave us the modern police officer, or 'peeler'. But it almost cost him his life.