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7 days ago

Crystal Palace v Aston Villa: FA Cup semi-final – live

Aston Villa last won the FA Cup in 1957, 68 of your Earth years ago, and even that’s so…

17 days ago

Stunning Edwardian mansion with its own DRAGON slide and fully habitable treehouse on the edge of stunning British city goes on sale for £4m

The stunning mansion, called Shotover Edge, sits on more than three acres of land in Headington, Oxford and despite the impressive scale of the home, what makes it stand out is its tree house.

19 days ago

Jean Marsh, co-creator of 1970s TV hit Upstairs, Downstairs, dies aged 90

ITV drama set in aristocratic house in Edwardian London explored class and social change, and won many awards

Jean Marsh, the actor and writer best known for co-creating and starring in the 1970s TV s…

26 days ago

35 days ago

‘He still features in my nightmares’: how a sinister psychiatrist put hundreds of women in deep, drug-induced comas

In the 1960s, William Sargant used a combination of narcosis and ECT to ‘reprogram’ troubled young women. Now his patients, including the actor Celia Imrie and the former model Linda Keith, are tryin…

‘His genius is elusive’: Harry Lawtey and Toby Jones on bringing Richard Burton back to the screen

In new film Mr Burton, the Industry star plays a young Richard Burton, with Jones as the mentor who helped him find his acting chops. The duo discuss trying to understand a cultural icon – and how to…

62 days ago

‘I love a home with a story’: inside a designer’s colourful London home

Designer Lou Rota shares her use of space, colour and nature to create a legacy home

Just as the British designer Lou Rota is enjoying what you might call a third act in her career – from graduating a…

89 days ago

3 months ago

‘Deep down, all Englishmen are policemen’: a Spanish correspondent’s view of life in Edwardian London

The journalist and adventurer Julio Camba wrote exquisite sketches about the strange habits of the English

The first of the myriad anglosajón ​peculiarities ​that would bedevil, confound and exasperat…

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