Simon Bradley

The nave of St Mary’s, Stafford, restored by George Gilbert Scott

Mighty monuments — or neo-Gothic horrors?

26 September 2015 8:00 am

Briefing his illustrator for the jacket of A Handful of Dust (1934), Evelyn Waugh asked for a country house in…

Tallulah Bankhead — at home in louche Maidenhead

Oscar Wilde, Christine Keeler, Ivor Novello and Isambard Kingdom Brunel make unexpected companions on the Great Western

6 June 2015 9:00 am

Readers who have put in some time on the railways may remember the neat, brush-painted graffiti that appeared in 1974…