THE Biosphere Festival is set to return this year featuring 40 planned community events across the Isle of Wight this summer. Organisers are hoping the festival will be "even bigger and better" than ...

In its mid-17th to 19th century heyday, Yoshiwara was home to high-class courtesans who sold a world of luxurious closed-door ...

His talent for pharmaceutical chemistry made him rich. His bold taste in paintings created the foundation for America’s most ...

A rare-book dealer traces the books that Austen admired. Many were by women writers who were the literary stars of their day.