Continuing our cold theme, our guest for January is Stef Penney. Photo credit: Ian Plillips-McLaren  Stef Penney grew up in Edinburgh....

Seventy seven years ago today Great Britain was paralysed by the most dramatic cold snap of the twentieth century. Winter 1947 was cold. Ver...

Here’s a story to cheer you up on a miserable cold day at the end of January. On a June afternoon in 1953, a golden coach was pulled throug...

Last Saturday, the 21st January 2017, I met up with a couple of friends alongside the Apollo Fountain  in the impressive Place Massena in Ni...

    At the very end of 2016, when the year itself seemed exhausted by its own historical weight, I visited Highgate cemetery with Bri...

Statue of Richard Coeur de Lion outside the Houses of Parliament, Westminster| Carlo Marochetti  1856. Modern audiences are frequently ...

This advertisement appeared in 1903, and I hope that to all my readers it will seem as shocking as to myself. What is equally shockin...