Stubborn patches of snow notwithstanding, I came to a distinct conclusion this weekend: Spring has come to the Flatirons, and with it comes the anticipation of patio dining. A pleasure anywhere, we ...

This Victorian terrace is over three floors with a dormer attic. Wellington Road on Cork's north side is home to a series of genteel 19th century terraces built for the city's Victorian well-to-do. In ...

PEEPING behind the lace curtains of late Georgian and early Victorian scientific gentility, Allan Chapman provides us with a vivid and engaging insight into the life and legacy of Mary Somerville.

Fashion, observed the essayist William Hazlitt, is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken. That may have been true before the social revolutions of World War I, when ...