CW Dixey & Son, reputed to be the oldest independent eyewear company in the world, and with similarly impressive names among its clients (including royalty of eleven countries and Napoleon Bonaparte),...

Chief among his eccentricities of style were his ‘siren suits’, so called because they could easily be slipped on and zipped up when the air raid sirens went (said to be...

Mass-produced objects such as radios and televisions had an important influence on culture Radio broadcasts brought people from different regions and different social backgrounds together as they listened to the same...

Introduced by Richard M Langworth...

Recognition in his final years...

Like many aristocratic men of the time, Churchill had been brought up to be able to ride, hunt foxes and fire a shotgun at game During his youth, he regularly went...

Churchill also enjoyed the rather more leisurely and less risky activity of swimming He had learnt to swim when he was at ‘prep’ school and at Harrow he represented his house...

Wilton’s in London is the oldest surviving music hall in the world and still houses the original theatre – find out more about its history here Another famous music hall was...

He also loved Monaco From 1945, he regularly visited Monte-Carlo and stayed at the Hotel de Paris for year-end festivities In the 1960s, he stayed here on the invitation of his...