On the drifting meaning of a single word - why the late Lord Bath spent a lifetime declining it, how…
From a vicar who dressed as a mermaid, preached with nine cats in church and created what became the modern…
Colour-drenched walls, mismatched antiques, wallpapered ceilings and curious collections have returned to fashion under the banner of the "Eccentric Aunt."…
At twenty-one, he stood about in the grounds of Knebworth House while Trevor Howard, blacked up and in a tutu,…
He spent sixty years making art out of movement — steel rods that crept in and out of their own…
Pink pigeons on the lawn, a clavichord under the seat of the Rolls, a horse taking tea in the drawing…
He played every wide boy, tipster, black-marketeer and fast-talking chancer that the British cinema of the rationed years required —…
Set within the quiet rooms of an ancestral Irish country house, this contemplative piece explores memory, landscape, inheritance and identity.
Kipling wrote The Man Who Would Be King - the fable of an Englishman who travels east, is taken for…
What if eccentricity is not the exception, but the natural condition of being human?
He wrote a dating manual at fourteen, before he met his first girlfriend. And sold a hundred copies in a…
"Eccentric Club?" – "Isn't there a contradiction in terms?"
Cornwall's Heligan is not merely eccentric. It is the strangest, saddest, most gloriously peculiar estate in that part of Britain…
Since the eighteenth century, the Eccentric Club has celebrated originality, fellowship and independent thought. Yet in an age of culture…
The eccentric does not behave strangely for the sake of it; the eccentric simply refuses to accept that the boundaries…