In 1503 Walter Hungerford III was born at Heytesbury, Wiltshire, the only child of Sir Edward Hungerford of Farleigh Hungerford, Some...

Trainee agents on the rope bridge across the muddy River Cam  at Audley End, Essex. ©Polish Underground Movement  Oxford writer Julie S...

"I went down to the bottom of the mountains; The earth with its bars was about me forever..." (Jonah, 2.6) Madeley is a former...

   A visit to the London Museum always makes me feel much closer to the past. From some of the windows you can see London Wall, Roman w...

I have a few thousand research books on my shelves.  All are treasured, but if I had to take just a handful with me to a desert island, w...

It began with this building, when I was in Reading doing some shopping. It was such a truly elaborate example of hideous Victoriana that I...

The first of these Welsh kings was Henry who defeated all the other kings at the Battle of Boswell and took away all their roses. After t...