Bible of British Taste » Culture and Folk

This is the house that Greg Powlesland built - artist, designer, maker, boat-builder and reclaimer, repairer  and re-purposer of old things - boats, vehicles, architectural salvage and industria...

https://bibleofbritishtaste.com/work-ethic-frenchmans-creek

Jane Hill has lived at Shepherd's Cottage for about 20 years now. Its unique, a seventeenth century backlands cottage just behind Highgate high street, once inhabited by a sheep drover who may ha...

https://bibleofbritishtaste.com/jane-hill-at-shepherds-cottage

Mark Hearld is the busy, polygamous artist and maker whom I've long wanted to meet. He has made multiple marriages, to print-making and collage, drawing and painting, lino-cutting, ceramics, wall...

https://bibleofbritishtaste.com/the-magpie-eye-mark-hearld

Laura Ashley had begun to print textiles in 1953 but her fashion label really took off in the 70s...  A couple of years ago we all started wanting it again  In the 70s this young company was o...

https://bibleofbritishtaste.com/why-we-loved-laura-ashley-all-over-again

The French call the little, personal and inconsequential anecdotes that are most revealing of life, les petites histoires. Charleston Farmhouse is full of them, signposts and memoranda of the liv...

https://bibleofbritishtaste.com/charleston-farmhouse-needs-you

Ever since I wrote Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire, I’ve been brooding. On the face of it the Ottomans had precious little to shout about, though they ruled from the cast...

https://bibleofbritishtaste.com/the-paupers-cookbook-and-the-country-kitchen-china-compost-heaps-cold-frames-and-country-life-by-jason-goodwin

Feted as the inventor-founder-editor of The World of Interiors magazine, in later life Min Hogg reinvented herself as the proud designer of an exquisite range of seaweed pattern wallpapers. Profe...

https://bibleofbritishtaste.com/seaweed-smoking-and-scale-the-importance-of-molly-alexander-remembers-her-great-aunt-min-hogg

Arriving one Easter at Veere Grenney's scintillating house in Tangier, Gazebo, I was curious to know who the other guests were. A bedroom door was flung open and Daniel Slowik appeared, smiling b...

https://bibleofbritishtaste.com/humble-elegance-john-fowlers-creative-response-to-troubled-times

It’s four weeks now since we’ve been here, down in Dorset. I’d say a couple of weeks ago the house got very tidy indeed. Everyone in the country, housebound and feeling helpless, went on a ...

https://bibleofbritishtaste.com/ben-pentreath-a-month-in-the-country-and-the-story-of-parsonage-pink

To mark April's Renaissance, the bibleofbritishtaste presents new stories and themes. Some are being commissioned from generous and talented friends. But these are not them. Today's story is an a...

https://bibleofbritishtaste.com/the-bobt-a-trip-to-the-archives