One of the glories of Baillie Scott's masterpiece, Blackwell, built 1898-1900 for the Manchester family of brewers - the Holts, is the g...

It’s often intriguing to compare the grandeur of the big house bought with the fruits of entrepreneurship with the circumstances of the cons...

  This summer’s exhibition at Penlee House, Penzance was devoted to the paintings of Harold Harvey, the only Cornish born artist associated ...

Georges Perec had a great talent for writing seriously about matters that most writers would have regarded as beneath their station. Such th...

When the profession of architect emerged in the Western tradition, typical clients were drawn from the ranks of Dukes, Princes, Sovereigns, ...

In my judgement, by some distance the best book on this subject in English. Comprehensive and beautifully organised and illustrated, it does...