1805 journal

A smell can trigger a memory and instantly take you back to a moment in time. The woody scent of leather may be a reminder of the time you sat with your father, snuggled in his favourite armchair or the heady smell of a cut lawn may conjure a memory of a childhood picnic, while the waft of a spec...

There is a feeling of celebration in the air. Summer is upon us, friends and family reunite, and across the capital, the country and The Commonwealth, people are looking to gather. A long weekend has been granted, the bunting is out, flags are flying, cakes decorated, and garden parties planned. ...

The social Season is inextricably linked with equestrian events and the British love of horses. As the Royal Windsor Horse Show returns post-pandemic on 11–15 May and the flat-racing season launches at Newmarket at the beginning of May, we celebrate equestrian style. Several iconic items of Briti...

We can’t turn back time, however much we would like to close our eyes and relive that first kiss, or that summer that went on forever. But confidant in who you are today, you can educate and offer guidance and give a jolly good pep talk to your preppy self, particularly when it comes to male groo...

The English gentleman can be recognised as much by his faultless grooming as his impeccable tailoring. Scrupulous neatness was one of the tenets laid down at the beginning of the nineteenth century by the most famous dandy of them all, George ‘Beau’ Brummell. It’s surely no coincidence that his c...

The traditions of St. Valentine’s Day, which are so familiar to us today, evolved from the vestiges of both, Christian and ancient Roman customs, however the day became definitively associated with romantic love within the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century, a time when the ideal of r...