Author: Simon Webb

Much more than a simple guidebook, Exploring Roman London is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in the early history of England's capital...

Is it true that the trans-Atlantic slave trade, about which so much has been heard in recent years, would have been impossible without the willing ...

The London Blitz and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour are iconic myths for Britain and America. Few in either nation realise, however, that the...

Emmeline Pankhurst is seen today as a valiant champion of democracy, but in the 1930s certain prominent former suffragettes were comparing her to H...

Following the disruption, hardship and challenges of the Second World War, the post-war years brought a sense of optimism and excitement, with fami...

Judicial hanging is regarded by many as being the quintessentially British execution. However, many other methods of capital punishment have been u...

Jed Harker wishes for nothing more than to mind his own business while travelling north to Kansas. In the summer of 1861 though, men and women were...

Marshal Jedediah Flynn has resigned his office and is determined to become a church minister. While travelling to take up a place at a theological ...

This is not a guidebook. This little book brings together past and present to offer a taste of Kingston upon Thames. Learn about the movers and sha...

We are all familiar with the digital revolution which has swept across the developed world in recent years. It has ushered in an age of smartphones...

Many British baby boomers are very nostalgic about a supposed golden age; a vanished world when children were generally freer, happier and healthie...

Before the Industrial Revolution, everyone lived within short walking distance of their workplace. However, all of this has now changed and many pe...

For many of us, the very expression 'Concentration Camp' is inextricably linked to Nazi Germany and the horrors of the Holocaust. The idea of Briti...