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Kashmiri building traditions: From Hammams with heated floors to wood wall-panelling and Khatamband ceilings made with local walnut wood laid in exquisite geometrical patterns, 4 techniques that are making a strong comeback - and with good reason.

These terrible cards spread festive joy of a different kind.

Cottage industries produced the hand needlework but anxious wives, sweethearts, mothers or sisters embroidered the more moving ones

St John’s Co-Cathedral to exhibit tapestries gifted by Grand Master Ramon y Perellos

100 years ago, Cicely Mary Barker combined botany with make-believe – and created a publishing phenomenon

As we look forward to Santys visit this Christmas Eve, Robert Hume trawls through the archives to find Father Christmas has been making the headlines for many years

The nation has truly come together after the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The sudden gathering of the Royal Family at Balmoral, then…

Bah Humbug! Famous words spoken by Mr Ebenezer Scrooge in Dickens’s A Christmas Carol – one of the most famous literary works associated with the festive season and the work that is perhaps responsible for the common assertion that Dickens invented C

Louis Wain became famous for the thousands of sketches and paintings of cats which he produced in his lifetime. Often seen with large eyes or human-like smiles, the depictions proved hugely popular.

The Conservatives would just about hold onto their Watford seat if proposed boundary changes to the constituency are approved.