This time last year Marina Mirga felt life had become little more than a soul-sapping and exhausting treadmill. A successful career as a PA in the financial world meant she enjoyed luxury weekends ...

In 1917, two little girls in England photographed fairies dancing and playing around their garden. Their names were Elsie Wright and her cousin Frances Griffiths. The girls told Wright's father that ...

One of the greatest hoaxes of the 20th century began with a sensational headline: Fairies Photographed! The yarn endured for six decades, until a rather disappointing confession in the 1980s confirmed ...

"Fairycore" may be trending on social media today but 100 years ago supernatural sprites were a national obsession. Holly Williams explores fairy fever. Imagine a fairy. Is the picture that appears in ...

“I was working it back and forth. You know how that goes -- like a queen.” — -- It was a magical day for 86-year-old Dorothy Czartorski serving as the flower girl in her granddaughter’s Oct. 21 ...

How lucky we are to live in one of the periodic golden ages of botanical illustration, as anyone who’s been to Kew in recent years will know. That special skill of combining meticulous accuracy with ...