Photography is often described as a way to freeze time, but for James Van Der Zee, it was much more than that. His images didn’t just...

There are eccentrics, and then there is Dame Edith Sitwell—an aristocratic poet, critic, and all-around formidable presence in...

Royal families have long been known for carefully controlling their public image, often keeping anything deemed unseemly out of sight. But few stories illustrate this better than the fate of Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon, two of Queen Elizabeth II’s first cousins, who spent most of their lives in an institution, forgotten by all but the hospital staff. For decades, their very existence was obscured, their deaths unnoticed by the wider world—until a 1987 exposé in The Sun