A painting by the Bloomsbury group artist Duncan Grant of Charleston Farmhouse, the 16th century Sussex property that became ...

Tennis historian Joel Drucker says the single biggest change since the dawn of lawn tennis was the professionalization of the ...

A 16th-century ivory sundial,18th-century false teeth and some medieval ... The items, along with hundreds of others, feature in a new exhibition at the London Museum. Curator Kate Sumnall said: "One ...

The London plane tree first appeared in Europe sometime in the 16th century, and can be grown in North America in USDA zones ...

This exhibition shows off the glitz and glamour of the period while presenting a subtler message about the role of royalty in ...

The Bayeux Tapestry depicting the conquest of England will be displayed in the U.K. for the first time in almost 1,000 years ...

My regular readers will know that I love history. I also love a well-researched novel about British royalty and the Tudor ...

‘I didn’t know you could actually buy a castle,’ says Simon Hunt, sitting in the stone-walled kitchen nook of his 16th-century Scottish pile with wife Stef Burgon. ‘I thought they were ...

Discover how King Henry VIII and other members of the Tudor nobility handled going to the bathroom in the mid-1500s. (Spoiler: There was velvet involved, but it still wasn’t pretty.) ...

A 16th-century painting which was stolen from a museum in Italy 50 years ago has surfaced in Norfolk - but the owner is refusing to return it. The Madonna and Child painting by Antonio Solario was ...

FANS of the UK’s most famous bard have reason to be excited in 2025, with a brand-new Shakespeare attraction to open in London. While Stratford-upon-Avon is the home to some of the playwright… ...

"The discovered remains of the 16th-century Curtain Playhouse bring a magical extra dimension to the making of this new place for the busy neighbourhood." Elsewhere in London, a neighbourhood is ...