To understand the significance of the museum, one must first understand Elene Akhvlediani (1901–1975) herself. A woman who ...

Marjorie Merriweather Post, heiress to the Post cereal fortune, was known as America's wealthiest woman when she purchased ...

The city’s most stylish residents of the Georgian period appear in new exhibition of paintings by revered artist Allan Ramsay. They were the best dressed in town – and only the best could ...

NEW YORK — “Liz, don’t frown,” the auctioneer told a woman seated in the Sotheby’s New York phone bank. “Just bid.” And bid she did. In fact, on Feb. 7, a whole lot of people bid. It was the first day ...

The BBC's archive showcases the best of TV across various genres, but it truly excels in what the BBC does best: delivering ...

The Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA) has released the visitor figures of its members for 2024. The total ...

Visitors to a country house near Beaminster will be able to see internal transformations and additional, previously private, rooms for the ...

In his famed 16th-century tract The Prince, the Florentine diplomat and author Niccolò Machiavelli warned that mercenaries are “dangerous,” for they are “disunited, ambitious and without ...

Above: The western drawing room features a Chinese opium bed, Scalamandré wallpaper, and Gabriel Manigault’s hand-laid parquet flooring. Two days before Christmas the streets of historic ...

Towards the end of the Second World War he stood as Liberal candidate for King’s Lynn in the 1945 election but lost in the landslide to Labour. It was not long after this that he became involved in ...

Founded in 1106 in the west of Georgia, the Monastery of Gelati is a masterpiece of the Golden Age of medieval Georgia, a period of political strength and economic growth between the 11th and 13th ...