A major restoration project has brought one of Britain's greatest Victorian buildings back to splendour and life. Steven ...

The worst excesses of the Industrial Revolution prompted some truly forward-thinking urban planning as far back as the 19th ...

Non Morris visits the much-loved gardens of High Moss, in Portinscale, Cumbria — home of Peter and Christine Hughes — and ...

Originally in use at the same time the Stonehenge boulders were raised, the mines at Grime's Graves are the oldest manmade ...

A recently acquired memoir by Jane Austen's brother might reveal more about the famous author, but there's a problem — his ...

With experts warning that regional accents could disappear within decades, our sometimes quaint and, often, bizarre dialect ...

The Great British summer (and May half-term) is looming large and trying to find the perfect place to holiday in is no easy ...

Stretching for 1,600 miles between Donegal and west Cork, the longest defined coastal touring route in the world has been a resounding success. Nigel Tisdall took a test drive to mark a decade since ...

As the National Gallery turns 200, the chair of its board of trustees, John Booth, chooses his favourite painting. The ...

Driven to distraction by paint charts? A colour consultant could be the answer for anyone befuddled by choosing the right hue ...

Jane Broughton pays a visit to the meticulously wonderful Sterrekopje, a place to stay where words like 'hotel' and 'spa' ...

Jonathan Self loves the sound of a burning log shifting in the stove and a tractor misfiring on its way up the lane.