What’s on at Charleston

Taking inspiration from our painted interiors, learn paint effects and antiquing techniques to adorn your wooden box. Paint supplied by Annie Sloan Paint.

Free Family Art Activities Bringing the artistic tradition of Charleston alive today, we invite families to More

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Now in its 29th year, the Charleston Festival brings together a remarkable cast of writers, thinkers, More

In a unique commission for the Charleston Festival, Ali Smith transforms The Famous Women Dinner Service More

When Lubaina Himid’s theatrical, witty and challenging works of art addressing colonial history and racism won More

The historic but dowdy aspect of Exhibition Road, home to our major national museums, has been More

A new novel by the great prose-stylist Alan Hollinghurst inevitably leads to Booker Prize predictions. His More

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In her group biography Lyndall Gordon links five female novelists, Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, More

The centenary of the Representation of the People Act, which gave women who were householders and More

Robert Harris’s Munich is history as a brilliantly imagined thriller set over the four days of More

Michael Frayn’s illustrious career as a playwright (from Noises Off to Copenhagen) and novelist including Headlong, More

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Frankenstein, the monster imagined by an adolescent Mary Shelley in her novel published two hundred years More

One of the greatest and most insightful biographers of our age, Claire Tomalin turned the spotlight More

At the heart of Blake Morrison’s new novel, The Executor, are perennial questions: what matters most, More

Vita and Virginia, a new film due to be released this autumn, co-written by Eileen Atkins More

Bailouts, bubbles, swindles and devaluations: David Kynaston’s authorised history of the Bank of England, otherwise known More

Prior to the presentation of the fourth annual Charleston-EFG John Maynard Keynes Prize, Sir David Attenborough More

A double bill of sublime classical music and art. Clemency Burton-Hill, an award-winning violinist, is also More

Never has there been more concern about dishonesty in public life. From the pre-referendum Brexit debate More

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Barney Norris’s novel Turning for Home and Sigrid Rausing’s memoir Mayhem both focus on family members More