ASHLEY JAMES REVEALS THE SPECIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF ADA ISABELLA BLUE’S NAME
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW AND PHOTOS INTRODUCING HER BEAUTIFUL BABY DAUGHTER ASHLEY JAMES REVEALS THE SPECIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF ADA ISABELLA BLUE’S NAME Cradl ing her peaceful ly...
ADDS THE LATE PRINCESS’S JEWELLERY TO HER COLLECTION
BUYING DIANA’S NECKLACE KIM KARDASHIAN ADDS THE LATE PRINCESS’S JEWELLERY TO HER COLLECTION As a modern-day cultural icon, Kim Kardashian appreciates the value of fashion...
The Earth Transformed by Peter Frankopan
“Most people can name the great leaders and major battles of the past,” writes the Oxford historian Peter Frankopan. “But few can name the biggest...
Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women by Victoria Smith
“Ageing is not the same for women as it is for men,” said Ellen Pasternack in The New Statesman. Whereas men might fear frailty and...
The ancient Egyptian underworld
The earliest funerary texts we have are the Old Kingdom Pyramid Texts and unlike later texts they did not include images, consisting purely of hieroglyphic...
River of the Gods by Candice Millard
“The Romans had an expression to describe an outrageously impossible task,” Facilius sit Nili caput invenire: it would be easier to find the source of...
British Museum
RICHARD JEFFERIES contrasted the pigeons outside the British Museum (‘To them the building is merely a rock, pierced with convenient caverns’) with the humans vainly...
THE PRINCESS OF WALES
Surrounded by giddy children, the Princess of Wales had a ball as she joined in with a colourful arts and crafts session during a visit...
a road trip across New Zealand’s South Island
Road-tripping across America can mean “long, high-mileage days crossing vast distances”, But New Zealand’s “wild and rustic” South Island offers “comparable natural grandeur, with much...
CARLEY STENSON
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW ,WITH HUSBAND DANNY MAC, ‘DANCING ON ICE’ STAR CARLEY STENSON ON LOVE, FAMILY LIFE AND SKATING TO MAKE THEIR LITTLE GIRL SKYE PROUD....
Taking it slowly in the land of the sloth
Many tourists come to Costa Rica hoping to spot a sloth, says Kate Wickers in The Mail on Sunday. It’s certainly a good place for...
Stalingrad
Eighty years after it ended, the Battle of Stalingrad remains a byword for the horror of modern warfare Why is the battle so important?The Battle...
Tough Guy by Richard Bradford
Norman Mailer, the subject of Richard Bradford’s “lively” biography, was “everything we have learnt to despise in the 21st century”, Born to Lithuanian Jewish parents...
LADY PETCHEY
She is one of the most successful British sculptors of the 21st century – a prolific, self-taught artist whose famous client list reads like a...
The virtuoso known as “the guitarists’ guitarist”
Jeff Beck Jeff Beck, who has died aged 78, was widely regarded as one of the greatest rock guitarists of all time, A “dazzling and...
Spare by Prince Harry
“You might feel as if you’ve already read Prince Harry’s memoir,” But when you read it from cover to cover, Spare proves to be much...
Your chance to be a girl with a pearl
LIKE OKUK, the Mauritshuis in The Hague is famous for its frontispiece. Unlike us, however, it has only one Girl with a Pearl Earring ,...
The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem by Matthew Hollis
“It began, probably, in a cave,” “In the sweltering August of 1919”, a 30-year-old bank clerk named Thomas Stearns Eliot – on a walking holiday...
The Hotel Bel-Air in California has long provided sanctuary to the stars
Like the morning after a glamorous Hollywood launch party, a period of recuperation from the carousing of Christmas is in order. The Hotel Bel-Air, set...
Shear genius
Christopher Stocks traces the story of topiary, from its ancient origins to the modern day WE don’t know who first looked at a bush and...
The Arts as a bulletproof political investment
IT’S been another tough year for the Arts and—at least in prospect—2023 doesn’t look any easier. Audiences and visitor numbers have been slow to recover...
The history of English Home old and new
ON Wednesday, November 26, 1947, the aesthete, conservationist and writer James, or ‘Jim’, Lees-Milne arrived in Yorkshire by train for a visit to Harewood House....
Painting a momentous year
WHEN it came to the life of the late Queen, two things mattered more than most: service and horses. Therefore, any attempt to capture her...