Britain has more than 3,000 stately homes, and many are open to us hoi polloi. Indeed, visiting a stately home has become a ...

We can all agree that growing a moustache for charity is a good idea. But is it worth keeping afterwards? Harry Pearson looks to the past to find the answers.

A miniature depicting a young Victorian woman is the spur for a tale of male duplicity and female resourcefulness in The Portrait Girl by Nicole Swengley (Breakthrough Books £10.99). Jewellery ...

Samuel Pepys moved into this parish when he was appointed Commissioner of the Navy Board and came to live next to the Navy Office at the rear of the church, noting his arrival at “ my house in ...

Beulah Loomis Hyde died in 1983. A first-of-its-kind retrospective is open at Cascadia Art Museum until February.

In our last missive, we journeyed along the Forgotten Highway and got a real sense of its importance in South Africa's history. Now, let’s gear up for the next part of our journey! We’re heading ...

Antiques USA is the Disneyland of dusty treasures and forgotten relics. This 15,000-square-foot behemoth is more like the ...

The film about the brutal murder of a woman by her daughter and her friend propelled Peter Jackson and Kate Winslet to ...

An AI robot’s painting of British computer scientist and codebreaker Alan Turing has sold for $1.08 million, becoming the most valuable artwork by a humanoid robot ever to change hands at auction and ...

Very demure! People in the Victorian era said this word instead of ‘smile’ to pose for photos. The WGN Morning News team also ...

Richard Price may be the street’s premiere storyteller. The writer behind some of the best episodes of HBO’s “The Wire” as ...