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

Like many of my fellow countrymen and women, I am fixated by the weather. The shipping forecast can fill me with overwhelming excitement wh...

I’ve just finished reading “Bleak House”,  almost hard on the heels of Tomalin’s biography of Charles Dickens. It is the first time I’ve re...