Admiral Cod

'When I first met Monsignor Gilbey at the Traveller's Club (where he had taken up residence following a long stint as the Catholic C...

This exclusive photo of Francisco Franco, taken from the cover of a Spanish historical magazine picked up this afternoon in Mexico, just scr...

They say being a charming, attractive, successful, single chap in modern America is as good as it gets, but I have my doubts. Life in this c...

"I want to return to Arcadia...Heiligenstadt, my home, whose forests and lakes are compared to that ancient Greek paradise...the place ...

Forward to the past !

After leaving Oxford without taking a degree, David Ogilvy (1911-1999) worked as (in his own words) "a cook, a salesman, a diplomatist ...

If you can picture Covent Garden, London in the mid-1980s, you can easily imagine a group of young floppy-haired Barboured Sloanes, perhaps ...

"We can ask and ask but we can't have again what once seemed ours for ever--the way things looked, that church alone in the fields,...

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"And sometimes [Kate] wondered whether America really was the great death-continent, the great No! to the European and Asiatic, and eve...

Herringbone or codbone, the pattern in this grey wool suit is appropriate for all but the stuffiest situations. This is an Oxxford number I ...

"Quand on est seul, on est en libre d’imaginer tout ce qu’on veut, on rêve à sa guise, on se sent bien, sans doute parce que la pensée ...