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Where better to hunker down in the autumn than the ultimate snug home? The thatched cottage is romantic, sustainable, has a long, proud tradition - and is now enjoying a revival.

For centuries the ultimate emblem of Britishness has meant different things to different people, and now it is back in the news. What does its history tell us?

Jilly Cooper, who died yesterday, was beloved in the UK. Her sagas of sex and shenanigans among England's rural upper-middle class society have been bestsellers since the 1980s.

A hotel manager's glimpse of something strange in 1933 helped to create a modern monster myth. In 1987, the BBC reported on the scientists who used sonar to hunt for Nessie.

The unflinching, surreal gaze of the US artist and war photographer Lee Miller bore witness to both beauty and brutality. Now she is the subject of a major exhibition at Tate Britain.

Directed by David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin, the Oscar-winning drama about the birth of Facebook proved to be an eerily prophetic look at social media's problems.