Art and Architecture, mainly

Although I assumed my post-WW2 generation invented hopscotch , that seems highly unlikely. The earliest confirmed mention of the game actual...

The HandleBar Adelaide uses vehicles devised by brothers Henk and Zwier Van Laar in Amsterdam in the 1990s. The four-wheel, open frame vehi...

                                                           Scheveningen beach Netherlands, Facebook The Dutch connection to Bondi is deeply ...

Built in 1892-4, this Romanesque Revival project was designed by arch­itect Theodore Link for the Terminal Railroad Associat­ion of St Loui...

Titus Salt (1803-76) was born near Leeds, educated in Wakefield and served an apprenticeship with a wool-stapler in Wakefield . He moved to...

Born Nigel Neill in 1947 in Omagh, Nth Ireland to an English mother and a New Zealand father serving in the British army. His family moved ...

Examine the legacy of the islands’ knitting industry . Started in the 1500s , the knitting industry first produced garments for commercial s...

  A 2023 survey by Travel + Leisure invited readers to vote on the world’s most beautiful cities . Clearly the answer differed for everyone,...