The biggest stories over the past week have featured a hospital CEO stepping down, a property on the market, and a ...

Lord Cholmondeley, owner of Houghton Hall, said: “The title of Stephen Cox’s exhibition at Houghton seems particularly ...

A Canaletto painting from the "high point" of his career is on the block at Christie's Old Masters in July and is estimated at $26 million.

Horace Walpole, politician, man of letters and author, was the youngest son of prime minister Sir Robert Walpole. In need of a country residence, Horace acquired Chopp’d Straw Hall in 1749 ...

But if you want to know precisely where and when horror fiction first started, then look no further than Strawberry Hill ...

It is well worth a visit. Horace Walpole, politician, man of letters and author, was the youngest son of prime minister Sir Robert Walpole. In need of a country residence, Horace acquired Chopp ...

The family’s home county was Norfolk, with which the Walpoles had long been associated: Britain’s first prime minister, Sir Robert Walpole of Houghton Hall, was Dolly’s five times great-uncle.

The huge success of Walpole's formative novel would inspire many authors including Bram Stoker (Dracula), Mary Shelley (Frankenstein) and the horror stories of Edgar Allan Poe. The youngest son of Sir ...

They feared that the Hamilton sought to emulate the rise to power of Sir Robert Walpole, Britain's first lord of the treasury and first prime minister. For Jeffersonians, Walpole was the poster ...

A gallery dedicated to his life can be found at the Swaffham Museum. Sir Robert Walpole is largely considered to be the first prime minister, although this title was not in use at the time.

The U.K. government is hoping to save a painting by the 18th century artist Jean-Antoine Watteau for the nation. Le Rêve de L’Artiste (1710), valued at just over £6 million ($7.9 million), has ...

The work features in A Catalogue of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole’s Collection of Pictures, where it is described as: “‘Watteau—A dream of Watteau’s, Himself asleep by a rock ...