The Land of Edom is shared today between Israel & South Jordan & has a written heritage going back to Bronze Age references. I don’t...

Dacre Bridge, named after the delightful Dacre Beck and meaning 'trickling stream', has stood for nearly 300 years. Constructed in the...

The medieval Star Chamber in the old Palace of Westminster heard cases of national import and personal gain, often with the monarch...

Thomas Gray’s ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ (1751) contemplates life & death, worldly status and natural order, & envisages the...

The Cowper & Newton Museum in Olney, Bucks celebrates all things William Cowper (d1800), poet, translator of Homer & literatus, and his...

Strawberry Hill House, described as ‘Horace Walpole’s little Gothic castle’, harbours triumph upon triumph. The mid to late C18...

Love these before and after images of Shakespeare’s home, Stratford upon Avon. Born 1564, he lived here with his parents, John & Mary,...

The burning of Newgate Gaol in June 1780 epitomised the grave violence of the Gordon Riots that year. Erupting in London on 2 June, tens...