PRE-ORDER: The Bible of British Taste: Issue no. 4

In this bumper 2025 issue no. 4 of the BoBT magazine we bring you brand new stories and three very ancient houses, witchery, green magic and folk tales, magical painting in Samuel Palmer’s Valley of Vision, BEST BRITISH BRAND BABYCHAM and the marvellous Dame Barbara Cartland’s boudoir - to say nothing of her extraordinary writing room, memorialised by her granddaughter Charlotte di Carcaci and photographed by her great-granddughter Claudia Legge.

Eddy and Vita Sackville-West, and Harold Nicholson are back in the gallery with James Lees-Milne and the legendary decorator John Fowler in Michael Hall’s enthralling alternative history of the Queer National Trust. Read Professor Ronald Hutton on Modern Druids and furbish up your splash-backs with some Modern Druid tiles from Not Quite Past. Chateau Orlando’s Luke Edward Hall does Arthurian, Sean Anthony Pritchard does the flowers, Arthur Parkinson does the fowls and the artist Mark Hearld interrogates the landscape of West Cornwall. Lally Macbeth, founder of the Folk Archive, does folk-art in the lostFolk and the Stitch-craft, Lachie Stewart does Avebury's Standing Stones in 7 shades of British Weather (also available as a set of postcards), art historian and white witch Gemma Rolls-Bentley, Luke Edward Hall and Simon Costin, Keeper of the Museum of Magic and Witchcraft each tell of their ritual and their craft. Peter York does Dictator Chic!