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Photography book Curtain Call: A Year Backstage In London Theatre offers an unprecedented look backstage at some of London’s biggest shows.

Ashdown House

In her latest novel, House of Shadows, bestselling author and historian Nicola Cornick investigates the untold story of Elizabeth Stuart, the Winter Queen, and her...

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Here we bring you a selection of images from This Land, a beautiful new photography book by Joe Cornish, which takes Britain’s landscapes from ancient quartzite rocks of the Scottish Highlands to the rolling chalk downs of Southern England.

Jane Austen, museum, anniversary

This year is the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen’s Emma and a new exhibition at Jane Austen’s House Museum in Hampshire focuses on the novel’s publication

A new exhibition in Southampton is set to celebrate the golden age of ocean liners, from the 1920s to the 1950s, when the vessels were the lifeblood of city, bringing employment, industry and glamour.

Easter doesn’t have to be all about over-indulging in chocolate. Here we round up a few of the egg-cellent ways to get out and about over the long weekend.

The Tandridge yew tree in Surrey. Credit: Diana Patient

Britain has one of the richest collections of yew trees in the world and with spring walks in mind the Conservation Foundation has produced...

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A landmark exhibition at Thompson's Gallery in London from 5 to 21 May will highlight the continued relevance of one of Scotland’s leading contemporary artists, Robert Kelsey.

Leith Hill Place, Dorking, Surrey The country house was built c1600, and was the childhood home of the composer Dr Ralph Vaughan Williams in the twentieth century. He donated the house and its grounds to The National Trust in 1944.

The piano of one of Britain’s most famous composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams, is on display for the first time at his childhood home, Leith...

The Norman nave of Durham Cathedral, a World Heritage Site, Durham, County Durham, England, UK.

The city of Durham has triumphed for a second time in VisitEngland's Tourism Superstar competition.