The Tumbrel Diaries

Between 1859 and 1891 her four sons and four of her five daughters produced for Queen Victoria no fewer than forty grandchildren. Of these s...

This rather beautiful drawing by Dame Laura Knight is coming up for sale late this month at Lawrences in Dorset, for next to no money. It sh...

We Australians have held onto the concept of “true blue” with such tenacity that it is now commonly applied to the national identity, or, mo...

In the mid-1970s a friend of mine was taken to visit the widowed English grandmother of a university friend of his somewhere in Shropshire, ...

Princess Marie Louise was probably not aware that by so enthusiastically recommending the exciting concept of an “Empire” pudding at the Foo...

Australian Dried Fruits. Princess Marie Louise’s Praise. LONDON , Nov. 12. “What wonderful fruit. How splendid if everybody made Christmas p...