The Grand Tour was the utlimate Georgian / Victorian gap year experience. Expensive and glamourous, this was a rite of ...

Bolt Tail, a fantastic viewing point on the South-West Coast Path, treats walkers to sweeping views over majestic Bigbury Bay ...

Isabella Bird: adventurer, explorer, writer, photographer, naturalist. Despite ill health and defying Victorian conventions ...

There have always been fashion ‘tribes’, from fops and beaux, bucks and dandies to Goths and punks, but the ‘macaronis’ of the 1760s and 1770s exceeded them all in their dedication to excess and ...

In 1900, there were over 11,000 hansom cabs on the streets of London alone. There were also several thousand horse-drawn buses, each needing 12 horses per day, making a staggering total of over 50,000 ...