Sackville-West’s renown as a gardener – and Virginia Woolf’s erstwhile lover – have eclipsed her reputation as a literary ...

A few words on singer/actress Marianne Faithfull who died last week at the age of 78. I have followed her career with some interest because she lived in my home town of Reading in the early 1960s, att ...

The relationship between Prince Hal and John Falstaff, a favorite of Shakespeare scholars, is the focus of this condensed ...

A new sofa is one of the biggest decor purchases you can make. So how do you end up with exactly what you want? Design it ...

At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in ...

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Christ's College is New Zealand's oldest private boys' school (and second oldest high school) and is marking 175 years this ...

Our devastation of nature is so extreme that reversing even a small part of it requires painstaking, quixotic efforts.

Small entities might once again need to relearn how to hedge between great powers. One forgotten highborn woman from history provides some ancient realist lessons.