Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Exactly 400 years ago, give or take a couple of weeks, Monteverdi’s Orfeo received its first performance in ...

A 12th-century Welsh manor with its own banqueting hall is on the market for the same price as a flat in central London. Tucked away in the Welsh countryside, Crick Manor dates back to the year ...

The Banqueting House is currently closed while the work is carried out but is expected to reopen in the summer. Listen to the best of BBC Radio London on Sounds and follow BBC London on Facebook ...

Begun in 1619, the grand old London house was designed by Inigo Jones, ... Interestingly, the Banqueting House you see today isn't the original. It's actually the third that's stood on the site.

12th-century Welsh manor with full banqueting hall goes on sale for the same price as a London flat...but which would YOU choose. By TOM LAWRENCE. Published: 03:45 EDT, 15 June 2025 | Updated: 04: ...

"Now & Then" takes a field trip to London this week to look into a 1839 daguerreotype, the earliest extant image of London, ... On Jan. 30, 1649, at Whitehall’s Banqueting House, ...

On this day in 1649, King Charles I was led from St James's Palace to Banqueting House on Whitehall, in front of which he was beheaded, thus drawing a gory line under the English Civil War.

Extensive conservation work is taking place at the Palace of Whitehall's 17th-century Banqueting House including cleaning and repairing an original Rubens ceiling painting.

Deep in the heart of London there’s a scandalously overlooked gem that goes by the name of Banqueting House. It’s fancy and opulent in every way imaginable, and here’s why you should visit ...