Queen Victoria’s penchant for Riesling was sparked by her visit with Prince Albert to the 900-year-old Schloss Johannisberg, ...

I noticed how much the tourists were enjoying the geraniums round the Victoria Memorial outside Buckingham Palace. They took ...

ERIK VARDENI didn’t want Mary McCarthy’s Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (Fitzcarraldo, £14.99; Tablet price £13.49) to end.

Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber premiered Evita, their second major musical, while the first, Jesus Christ Superstar, was in ...

Out here in the Welsh Marches we have less of heatwave than a drywave. What’s stressing nature – and plunging farmers here ...

St Mary’s batted first in the 20-over game, setting a competitive total of 149 runs for the loss of six wickets.

The last time I walked into Amsterdam’s University Medical Centre (UMC), a few kilometres south of the city centre, it was to ...

In the 1939 film of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the beautiful dancer Esmeralda is about to be hanged for witchcraft on the ...

It has seeped into British culture at all levels until it has become almost taken for granted. But this has happened ...

The law is in the process of being changed by Parliament apparently on the basis that only one of those human beings, the ...

Now in its 130th anniversary year, St Francis Leprosy Guild strives to bring an end to a very ancient disease that many people think is long gone. In fact, ...

The president of the German bishops’ conference Bishop Georg Bätzing of Limburg commended the implementation of blessings for couples in his diocese unable to ...