Peter Higgs, an unworldly and donnish academic, was reading some new research papers on July 16, 1964, when he had his eureka ...

The revelation last week about the Labour prime minister’s affair with an aide gave us a glimpse into the hidden life beneath ...

They liked it in Arts and Features, but had to clear such a rude word with the paper’s founding editor, the donnish ex-schoolmaster Donald McLachlan. He pronounced it acceptable as a play on words.

Sir Andrew Davis, the conductor, who has died aged 80, held the unusual honour of being concurrently chief conductor of the ...

How did this donnish Victorian bachelor, conservative by nature and a devout Anglican, come to create tales that continue to chill readers more than a century on? In the clip above, actor Robert ...

We’ve judged the contenders on 25 criteria, from green space and listed buildings to crime rate, to reveal the country’s ...

He jibes the crowd with winking nods to the classic bookish Oxford stereotype while fully aware that the audience could hardly be less donnish. “You’re clever and terrified,” he grins as he ...