Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
John Travers Cornwell joined the Royal Navy aged just 15. By 16 he was dead and one of the most famous people in Britain, as the youngest person to be awarded a Victoria Cross in the First World War.
Bramshill House, near Basingstoke in Hampshire, is one of the largest and most important Grade I-listed Jacobean mansions in Britain. It was built in the early 17th century by the 11th Baron Zouche of Harringworth, and is notable for its decorative architecture influenced by the Italian Renaissance.
We imagine that Christianity was the bedrock of daily life in medieval Britain - in charge of the greatest occasions of life and death. Yet, during the reign of King John, the churches of England and Wales were officially closed to the citizens for over six years!
There are 26 types of ladybird in the UK, many of which can be regularly spotted in gardens and woodland. Being spotted is the right word for seeing these small flying insects, as the familiar feature across the species is a range of coloured shell types with spots in numbers ranging from 2 to over 20.
For about 50 years, from the 1770s, the streets and buildings of Britain were greatly enhanced by the decorative use of Coade stone, an artificial stone made to a secret recipe.
The “little gothic castle" beside the Thames in West London that was built by Horace Walpole in the second half of the 18th century is generally regarded as having sparked the Gothic revival craze of the late 18th and 19th centuries in Britain, including the first Gothic novel.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.