READERS might wonder why Shakespeare would relate the pretty plant aconitum with ‘rash gunpowder’, as he does in Henry IV Part 2. 

Experts have poured scorn on an historian’s claim to have made the “literary discovery of the century” – uncovering the only portrait of William Shakespeare made in his lifetime.

A historian has claimed to have discovered the only portrait of William Shakespeare made in his lifetime.

AT times I mourn the loss of garden stories and traditions.