By Peter Clarke LRPS 7 November 2025 Beeston, Nottingham Photography by Peter Clarke. As a family we all love Italy. The food, the culture and the history. We have visited many regions and many cities. Rome the eternal city, Bologna, Venice, Florence and Pisa, and Lecce in the south. This year we decided we would take in the sights and history of the Ligurian coast and had our base in Genoa . It is also known for its historical association with international celebrity an

By Janine Moore 25th October 2025 All photography by Janine Moore. Click on photos to enlarge. Take a walk with me to wander the green lanes and mossy stones of Dale Abbey, Derbyshire — where a 13th-century Premonstratensian house once stood, a hermit carved a cave in the sandstone, and footpaths weave through evocative ruins, an ancient church, and haunted woodland. The beautiful Dale Abbey Village is nestled in a Derbyshire valley and founded on faith, compassion, and com

By Marianne Coxon 11 October 2025 Six years ago I became interested in the Hardwick Hall Noble Women hangings when I started my first role with the National Trust as a Creative Interpreter discussing the meanings behind these wonderful hangings as part of the ‘We are Bess’ project. The crux of the project was to explore the true nature of Bess of Hardwick who had been maligned by her last husband the Earl of Shrewsbury and mainly male writers since. The aims were also to in

By Marysia Zipser 9th October 2025 Photography and videos by Tony Fisher RPS, Teresa Cullen, Jeanie Barton and Marysia Zipser On Sunday...

By Patrizia Poggi 16 August 2025 Ravenna Portrait of Oscar Wilde by Napoleon Sarony, photographic print on card mount: albumen. Library of Congress, Washington, USA In Ravenna, the stones whisper verses. Dante found eternal exile here; Byron ignited the myth of rebellion within its walls. But it was a twenty-three-year-old Irishman, Oscar Wilde, who grasped the city’s most secret soul—that of a "Queen uncomforted" whose splendour had not faded but lay intact beneath the pat