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From the Globe at Bankside to the Wimpole Street home of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, London is, and always has been, crammed with literary life. P...

The streets and squares of the West End of London, some of the most famous in the world, have been home to poets and pop stars, world-renowned arti...

The East End: Roman burial ground, medieval rubbsih tip, Victorian hell hole, WW2 bombing aarget, 21st century gentrification template. Always a ...

In the same format as the successful London Compendium, the Manchester Compendium relates the remarkable and diverse history of England's second ci...

There might be more books on Oxford than students who have attended the world’s greatest university, but there has never been one as dynamic and ex...

“Good evening. I’m from Essex, in case you couldn’t tell.” Thus spoke the inimitable punk poet of the flat lands, Ian Dury, in 1977. Few other part...

The streets of London resonate with secret stories, from East End lore to Cold War espionage, from tales of riots, rakes, anarchy and grisly murder...

They call Yorkshire God’s own country. This is because England’s biggest county is also England’s most epic and most historically exciting. It has ...

Mediaeval no-go zone, Victorian hell-hole, war-ravaged bomb site, 21st century shining city, the most exciting area in one of the most exciting cit...