Author: Bob Clarke

Grub Street was a real place, a place of poverty and vice. It was also a metaphor for journalists and other writers of ephemeral publications and,...

Today’s village of Kinver first made an appearance in 736 AD as Cynibre. Despite being close to the Black Country and having a flourishing iron wor...

The Berlin Airlift was a turning point in World History and the catalyst for the Cold War. From the end of World War Two the relationship between t...

'From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.' So said Winston Churchill in 1946. Abou...

The building of new airfields in the United Kingdom was a purely 20th Century Affair. Well over 700 were built, identifiable in three major phases....

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. So said Winston Churchill in 1946. About...

Devizes is a typical bustling Wiltshire market town. Architecturally the town boasts a variety of buildings spanning almost a thousand years, and o...

Wiltshire contains some of the most important archaeological sites in Britain.Its Prehistoric remains include the breath-taking Stonehenge, awesome...