No-dig gardening stores carbon dioxide in the soil while digging releases carbon into the atmosphere. By preventing soil disturbance, the no-dig method offers an environmentally friendly approach to ...

When an area is coppiced, more sunlight can enter the woodland floor, allowing other plants to thrive. In our gardens, bluebells, wood anemones and marsh marigolds bloom the next year, followed by ...

The Whitehall Palace fire started on the afternoon of 4 January 1698, when a Dutch maidservant was drying linen sheets on a charcoal brazier in a bed chamber at Whitehall Palace.

Make this festive season memorable for all the family, with a day out to Christmas at Hillsborough Castle and Gardens. During the day, explore gardens transformed with beautiful decorations inspired ...

Step into the home of Princess Victoria and experience the magical atmosphere of a Regency Christmas, brought back to life at Kensington Palace. Enter a world of flickering candles, theatrical ...

Anne of Cleves was Queen of England and Henry VIII's fourth wife for just over six months. Disregarded by some historians as the 'ugly one' and the subject of a much-discussed portrait by renowned ...

In 2014 the Tower of London marked the centenary of the outbreak of The First World War (WWI) with the commemorative art installation Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, which saw the moat filled with ...

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Work on Queen Caroline’s State Bed, which we care for on behalf of the Royal Collection Trust, continues in the Conservation Studio at Hampton Court Palace. In our last post, we shared our progress on ...

The son of a blacksmith from Putney, Thomas Cromwell enjoyed a meteoric rise in Henry VIII’s service. When his first prominent patron, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey fell from grace in 1529, Cromwell was one ...