Author: Christopher Nicholson

Christopher Nicholson's first book of nature writing is a beautiful account of an unusual obsession. In 2016 he spent August searching for the rema...

The Peak District has always been a formidable barrier to transport links across it, particularly railways. The first crude horse-drawn tramways fe...

We've been sending one another postcards for well over a century now - usually brief messages to our friends and family telling them about the weat...

Christopher Nicholson vividly describes the construction and history to the present day of some of the world's most famous lighthouses in this clas...

As the summer draws to a close, a few snowbeds - some as big as icebergs - survive in the Scottish Highlands. Christopher Nicholson's Among the Sum...