Silver, red or even black, marriage gowns of the past were seldom white, until Queen Victoria opted for the hue of purity in 1840, discovers Matthew Dennison ...

Sir Joseph Banks didn’t technically found the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew — it was George III’s mother, Princess Augusta, who started a garden there — but he literally sowed the first seeds of it ...

The people who brought you electric icons from Bentley, Range Rover, Jaguar and Rolls-Royce, will bring you 350bhp 5.0-litre DB6. Woke is dead, long live smoke. Or as Lunaz puts it, slightly more ...

This is an international institution, a great Regency building and a public face of London. It deserves something better.

Last night, Crufts declared Bruin t Best in Show. In honour of his success, we're revisiting a feature on Clumbers that ...

New Zealand to Peru — and more than 2,600 entries across British and Irish native breeds will gather for the biggest date in ...

The designer Manolo Blahnik has been crafting covetable footwear for more than 50 years. He travels to Milan every season to ...

In the swelter of last summer, a coolly white iris called ‘Immortality’ bloomed until the end of October. This was a rhizomatous, bearded or ‘Germanica’-type iris, a group of sunseekers providing ...

What does footballer-turned-actor Vinnie Jones have in common with the late Elizabeth II? A deep affection for rural Britain, certainly, but also a love embodied by one item in particular: the walking ...

Louis Elton, an alumnus of both Oxford and Cambridge, believes innovative artisanship is the answer to Britain's challenges.

Pamela Goodman journeys to Shakti Prana, a remote lodge with peerless views of sacred mountains in the Himalayas, only accessible on foot.

Grace McCloud talks to Toddy Fleming of Studio Cameron about gently updating The Hirsel — a Category A Listed stately home on ...