In January's Livres du Mois I share with you The Contents of Wilsford Manor, a catalogue containing the sale of the contents of Stephen...

Sir Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell, 6th Baronet CH, born 15 November 1897, was an English writer, best known as an art critic, music critic...

Sir Alan Charles Laurence Whistler CBE, born 21 January 1912, was a British poet, writer and artist, working in particular in glass...

I have only written a brief overview of the duchess because she was an incredible woman and there are many articles about her written by...

Nancy Freeman-Mitford CBE, born 28 November 1904, known as Nancy Mitford, was an English novelist, biographer and journalist. The eldest...

"Never trust a man or a woman who is not passionately devoted to geraniums." Beverley Nichols is one of my favourite writers and...

Loelia Mary, Lady Lindsay of Dowhill, née Ponsonby, born 6 February 1902, was a British peeress, needlewoman and magazine editor. Lindsay...

David Plunket Greene, together with his brother Richard and sister Olivia, were part of the Bright Young Things who inspired the novel...

The sharply radical portraitist of a "new English avant-garde." Barbara Marcia Ker-Seymer, born in Kensington 20 January 1905, was a...

Oliver Hilary Sambourne Messel, born 13 January 1904, was an English artist and one of the foremost stage designers of the 20th century....

Victor William (Peter) Watson, born 4 September 1908, was a wealthy English art collector and benefactor. Peter Watson is as mysterious...

Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell, DBE, born 7 September 1887, was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. So...

Margaret Sheila Mackellar Chisholm born 9 September 1895, was an Australian socialite and "it girl" in British high society during and...

Arthur Tilden Jeffress, born 21 November 1905 in Brentford, Middlesex, was an influential gallery owner, collector and patron of the arts...

They started the fashion for treasure hunts and masquerades that defined high society in the 1920s and even went as far as to try and...

Hugh Patrick Lygon was born 2 November 1904 in Rothenburg, Bavaria. He is often believed to be the one of the main inspirations for Lord...

The Oxford Wits were an identifiable group of literary and intellectual aesthetes and dandies, present as undergraduates at the...

"Come and drink with me somewhere" Alastair Hugh Graham, born 27 June 1904, was an honorary attaché in Athens and Cairo, an Oxford friend...

"Gentleman may prance but not dance."

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh, born 28 October 1903, was an English writer of novels, biographies, travel books and he was also a prolific...