When we think of the rise of Egyptology, I think our minds often turn to the Art Deco Egyptian Revival of the early 20 th century with Ca...

In the summer I visited Rockingham Castle  in Northamptonshire  and was fascinated to learn that it was a source of inspiration for Charles ...

The eighteenth century in Europe saw a burgeoning fascination with the occult, a mystique born from a rich blend of Renaissance magic, medie...

A Victorian Marital Disaster by Stephanie Williams In the 1850’s the public breakdown of the marriage of Edward Bulwer-Lytton and his wife R...

A Jenny Haniver Photo: M.Violante It is so important to take children to museums, I mean proper museums with real objects in glass cases, no...

‘To understand it,’ Linette begins, ‘you must know our history. Many of the Welsh estates have dwindled dreadfully in recent years, to the d...

If you move fast, you can just catch the fabulous exhibition Entangled Pasts 1768-Now, Art, Colonialism and Change at the Royal Academy in...