James Mercer Langston Hughes, born 1 February 1901, was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from...

Jan Davidsz de Heem, born 17 April 1606 in Utrecht, was a still life painter who became a major representative of the still life genre in...

William McLaren, born in Ferniegair, Hamilton, 1923, was a Scottish Illustrator. McLaren grew up in Cardenden, Fife, Scotland but...

Hedy Lamarr, born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler November 9, 1914  was an Austrian-American actress, inventor and film producer. I could not...

Raymond Voinquel, born 11 January 1912 in Fraize (Vosges), was a French still photographer who specialised in portraits, working on...

Born in 1881, William Bruce Ellis Ranken was a Scottish artist and Edwardian Aesthete. He had an idyllic childhood living in vast estates...

Born Rupert Chawner Brooke, 3 August 1887, in the town of Rugby, Warwickshire, son of a headmaster, Brooke attended preparatory (prep)...

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...

Anthony Dymoke Powell, born 21 December 1905 in Westminster, was an English novelist. He attended Eton where he made a friend of a fellow...