Cold weather can leave your garden looking a bit barren, and that can be a downer for plant lovers. Thankfully, there are some beautiful outdoor container plants that can survive the winter and ...

The small U.K. country boasts 600 castles, some in ruins and others that have been lived in continuously for more than 1,000 years. This is the first in a two-part road trip series exploring the ...

The story of Susanna and the Elders, related in the Book of Daniel, was a popular subject for artists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and no wonder. Susanna, a virtuous, beautiful young ...

Workers have begun the 'world's toughest gardening job' by using a cherry picker to painstakingly trim the 300-year-old hedges at a historic castle. Trump’s gift to the King led archive boss to quit ...

Visitors can explore pretty castle ruins and beautifully pruned gardens for free with the offer THROUGHOUT the month of September, the National Trust is allowing access to its properties across the ...

Wales is known as the "land of castles" and has over 600 to choose from for a historic day out. One particular castle you should add to your bucket list is the 13th-century Powis Castle and Garden.

A scenic coastal walk in northeast Scotland has been ranked among the UK’s best, thanks to its dramatic cliffs, medieval fortress and striking natural beauty. The route from Stonehaven Harbour to the ...

About 2,200 items are missing at the National Library of Wales - an increase of 84% in two years. Among the archives and manuscripts missing are deeds of 13th century Powis Castle, and "rolls" and ...

The Getty has brought together five Artemisia Gentileschi paintings for the occasion. Artemisia Gentileschi, Hercules and Omphale (ca. 1635–37), being restored by the Getty’s senior conservator of ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Artemisia’s darkest moment was in May 1611, two months before her eighteenth birthday, when she was raped by one ...

Much attention has been paid recently to the life of the Italian Baroque master, Artemisia Gentileschi—specifically, her rape, her torture with thumb screws while testifying during the trial of her ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Looks can be deceptive. From the outside, Herefordshire’s Eastnor Castle, designed by architect Robert Smirke ...