History in the Making:
A seaside studio to save: the hideout where the society artist Solomon J. Solomon captured portraits of the famous is in urgent need of renovation
Baronets, blood and Beatles: history oozes from a Tudor manor house near East Peckham – and that’s without its role in an infamous poaching case
Elizabethan curate’s enterprise: 450 years in the life of world’s oldest law firm
Maidstone schoolmaster and Nobel laureate: behind the author who inspired generations lies a love story and a rather eccentric naval officer
I landed from the blazing Halifax … and then an old chap gave me a big kiss: navigator helped by the Resistance was betrayed, and survived concentration camp
Exit, from the theatre of war: a West End actor ‘more accustomed to artistic circles’ joined up. But a sniper’s bullet soon ended his adventure