Whipsnade Zoo Keeper ploughing paddocks with Dixie the elephant,  1940.  Source: Zoo and Animal Magazine, 1939/40.  Lucy Pendar’s father, Al...

Bronislava and Jan Madejscy with their kablacok willow baskets, are part of the Slow Art in Poland movement, in Lucimia Village which is on ...

Procrastination helped me create a way to look at my goldfish above water. I n theory the lock-down of 2020 has been good for thinking and w...

Felicia Skene, left, with her niece Zoe Thomson, wife of the Archbishop of York, and her brother William Forbes Skene, Historiographer Ro...

The tower of Magdalen College was built in 1492 beside the River Cherwell Copyright Janie Hampton, 2019. The River Cherwell (pronounced...

I had laid my bet on a shiny, black bitch called Millicent Magic. She had previously been beaten by Jet Stream Smurf and Boherduff Sola...

photo: Rex Shutterstock Judith Kerr, esteemed writer and illustrator of children’s and young adult books, died last week aged 95. I had ...

'Bringing in branches at Maytime', from  A Book of Hours by Jean Poyer, 1500 The first of May has been important in our f...