Name one person whose summer wardrobe is better than their winter one. Go on, it’ll be fun. Harder than it sounds, isn’t it?

A dark episode in the family history of Norton Conyers inspired a young Charlotte Brontë to write Jane Eyre — but the hidden attic is just one of many treasures in this grand Yorkshire house.

Two years and two thousand miles into her epic journey on foot around Scotland, The Scotsman's rural affairs correspondent ...

Amie Elizabeth White charts the history of the monk strap shoe — beloved by Clark Gable, Cary Grant and James Bond.

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Thank goodness, then, for the Seaside Boarding House, a converted Edwardian villa overlooking Chesil Beach that’s a real breath of fresh (sea) air. Certainly it’s stylish, with its reclaimed wooden ...