Carol Lewis

Rumour has it that Queen Victoria’s silk coronation gown was made at 14 Fournier Street in Spitalfields

Lucien Pissarro, son of the great impressionist painter Camille, left Paris in the late 19th century and settled down with his family at The Brook, near Chiswick

A new photography book, Panoramas of Lost London, captures the capital’s incredibly diverse buildings after the turn of the 20th century

The address featured in Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated play is on the market — but it’s Emirati billionaires, rather than bohemians, who are the target buyers

Garret House in the village of Cartmel has many stories to tell from across the centuries. Melanie Backe-Hansen, our house historian, unpicks them

No 24 Upper Berkeley Street was once home to Jane’s older brother Henry. Plus, an Austen country home that is now for sale at £2 million

Cleatham Hall was home to the Allied officer behind a daring escape from a German PoW camp, well as having a connection to Britain’s greatest naturalist

A day in the life of the Liverpool terrace with connections to stonemasons and the Beatles’ origin story

Dr Thomas Monro, consulting physician to George III, lived in this Surrey mansion, which was also painted by JMW Turner when he was a guest there

As a new memorial is unveiled to a pioneer of social housing, we look at the strict, surprising and occasionally bizarre rules behind the historical markers