RIBA Collections The drawings show that Seifert’s scheme was for a clutch of towers, between 15 and 20 storeys in height and similar in form and finish to the practice’s famous Nat West Tower ...

Britain has more than 3,000 stately homes, and many are open to us hoi polloi. Indeed, visiting a stately home has become a ...

A new exhibition that documents the impact of the Industrial Revolution features several 1800s artists, writers and thinkers ...

The adulterous monarch married Anne - the second of six wives - after an affair with her while still with his first wife Catherine of Aragon, with whom he later parted company. Anne had been serving ...

Second, the production of books multiplied so ... provided either the standard library location symbol for the copy I read (C = Cambridge University Library; CSmH = Huntington Library; DLC = Library ...

This story begins in a land across the sea … When I first learned about Katherine Rundell’s “Impossible Creatures” (after critic Ron Charles praised it in the Washington Post), the U.K. fantasy novel ...

While normally housed in a bank vault, a decision was made in 1903 to store them in a safe in the castle's Bedford Tower ... to have it placed in the castle library instead.

German air raids had killed or injured more than 1,400 residents of the city and destroyed or damaged hundreds of homes ...

This is one person's ultimate Ireland bucket list - from the surf up North to going on a ghost hunt. What would be on your ...

Within the wrought iron bands of this coffin had been placed a 16th century crusader's sword from the Tower of London collection ... bodies is in Westminster Abbey Library. Service paper from the ...

I dream in double denim. So, ever since thrifting an indigo denim jacket last year, I’ve been on the hunt for some low-rise ...

“GROWING IN THE mud, and yet so clean, the lotus is a symbol of purity,” writes the Sri Lankan historian Ananda K. Coomaraswamy in his 1913 book “The Arts and Crafts of India & Ceylon.” The lotus pool ...