Author: Andrew Powell-Thomas

The history of the West Country has left a rich legacy of castles and other fortifications throughout its landscape, built wherever power and wealt...

The landlocked county of Wiltshire, characterised by its high downland and wide valleys, has a rich military history that stretches back through th...

As Hitlers Germany spread her wings across Europe in the late 1930s, nations across the continent began preparing their own defences. The threat of...

The county of Cornwall in the far south-west of England is surrounded by sea on three sides. Resisting Roman and Anglo-Saxon invaders, it retained ...

This illustrated history portrays one of Englands finest counties. It provides a nostalgic look at Somersets past and highlights the special charac...

The county of Devon, with its coastline north and south, wild moorland, and rolling rural countryside, villages, market towns, many characterised b...

The county of Somerset can trace its origins back to Anglo-Saxon England, when it was a distinct part of the kingdom of Wessex, although the histor...