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Coinciding with an exhibition at the Sir John Soane’s Museum, WC2A, which explores the links between Sir John Soane and Le Corbusier, Wright and Goldfinger, this thought-provoking discussion between ...

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Games of Snakes and Ladder punctuated most of our childhoods, but how many of us know about its Ancient Indian origins and ...

Once frequented by David Bowie, Monte Argentario, on Italy's Tuscan coastline, is back in the spotlight a half century on and ...

It's 130 years since Octavia Hill, Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley and Sir Robert Hunter coming together to form the National Trust. From relatively humble beginnings — the first property, Alfriston Clergy ...

Utilitarian outwear has taken the fashion world by storm and now Britain's world-famous wax jackets are getting in on the act ...

Pablo Picasso knew how to make a woman happy: In the autumn of 1951, months after he had begun an on-and-off affair with author Geneviève Laporte, 25 to his 70, he gave her a lithograph he had made.

Man has long had a soft spot for owls. We’ve been around these creatures an awfully long time and are held in thrall by a mysterious bird that’s seldom seen in daylight, yet is master of the night: ...