The Tumbrel Diaries

Every now and then one is reminded of British imperial swagger, mostly symbolical but invariably sentimental, even nostalgic. Yesterd...

Last year our distinguished colleague Professor Sir Christopher Ricks suggested to me that the correct pronunciation —or perhaps the most ...

To mark The Queen’s diamond jubilee it is announced by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in Whitehall today that henceforth the souther...

Last month in London I snatched up a DVD, newly issued to mark the Diamond Jubilee, of the J. Arthur Rank Organization’s cinemati...

I loved the little film that was made by the BBC and slotted into the beginning of last evening’s opening ceremony for the Games ...

Perhaps no other object in our collection has lately received such immense media coverage than our splendid 1747 Westminster Bridge, with...

Watching The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee address to both Houses of Parliament in Westminster Hall the day before yesterday, I was struck by the...

This week The Queen is visiting Australia for the sixteenth time since 1954. I have a vivid memory of the third of those official visits in ...

Assisted by the vastly learned Richard Warren, I have been systematically working through the extraordinarily rich collection of rare early ...

There is a point early in vice-regal terms of office when, at times, either separately or in tandem, the incumbent and his or her spouse m...