Algernon Swinburne: poetry’s whipping boy

How Hardy wrote himself into railway history

Max factor: Hampstead’s ‘incomparable’ dandy

Margaret, wife of the not so jolly Rajah

Frank Harris: pants on fire?

Shaw’s fair lady

Whistler: mother’s boy

Holmes boy

Not so steady Eddy

Wilde card

A portrait of Oscar’s rival

Keeping up with the (Burne) Joneses

Wisdom that lingers

Bard boy

‘A very nice old lady’

Laura Bell: prostitution and politics

(Very) liberal Lorne

Georgie Shaw, the Parkway pioneer

Sharp’s the word: Margot to a tee

How Asquith’s world was overwhelmed by war