From breathtaking Bailey castles to sprawling celebrity houses, there are plenty of knockout country properties ... literary figures including Thomas Hardy, Siegfried Sassoon and Alfred, Lord ...

They discuss why Hardy liked to present himself as an Arthurian knight ... Read more about Love and Death: ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ by Thomas Gray To mark the publication of a new ...

At the west end of the nave of Westminster Abbey is a monument to Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy. The Admiral is shown in Roman armour reclining on a sarcophagus and at his feet are putto weeping beside an ...