Places of Interest

Charleston

Charleston, the country meeting place of the Bloomsbury group between Brighton and Eastbourne in Sussex, is set to feature on the small screen when a new drama about the artists airs next week...

The National Trust has teamed up with celebrated poet, Dr John Cooper Clarke, to pen a poem to celebrate Britain's beautiful coast and now it is calling for your help to finish the ode.

national trust, volunteers

The National Trust is re-imagining how it uses its 60,000 army of volunteers – which could include leaving some rooms in its stately homes unmanned. The trust's volunteers are traditionally retired people but it is becoming more difficult to recruit because today's older people are too busy travelling or babysitting says Dame Helen Ghosh, the director-general of the trust.

A new show at the British Museum this autumn aims to challenge preconceptions about the culture of the Celts...

Unesco, heritage, Scotland, bridge, history

Scotland's famous Forth Bridge was named as UK's 29th World Heritage Site at a recent Unesco committee meeting in Bonn, Germany

Interview with Fiona Rule, author of Streets of Sin, which charts the history of Notting Hill, from dark days to gentrification and THAT Richard Curtis film

Donate now to help restore Charleston, former home of Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell and East Sussex outpost for the Bloomsbury group

“Let’s do it, let’s fall in love”, goes one of Cole Porter’s best-known ditties in High Society. Well, to get you in the mood...

This summer marks 300 years since the death of Louis XIV. It is, then, fitting that Boughton House in Northamptonshire should play host to...

The jagged outline of the remains of Kenilworth Castle calls out to be explored and slowly reveals a historic royal love story to those...