This year marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of England's greatest gardener Lancelot '“ or, as he is most widely known '“ '˜Capability' Brown. '˜Capability' stuck because he would ...

In the summer of 1771 William Constable had just returned to Burton Constable, his house in the East Riding of Yorkshire, after a lavish Grand Tour. He and his sister Winifred had spent £7000 and came ...