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Gloucestershire's strategic location straddling the Severn is reinforced by Bristol's importance as a port. The Forest of Dean and the Cotswolds ar...

Settled by successive waves of incomers, Northamptonshire is a typical English shire county with prehistoric camps, Roman towns, Saxon burhs, castl...

Leicestershire and Rutland, occupying the area between the Great North Road and Watling Street have seen the movement of armies from Roman times to...

On the night of 20 November 1914, everything pointed to the likelihood of invasion by a German army, whisked across the North Sea on a fleet of fas...

For 2,000 years Essex, the county with the longest coast-line in England and dominating the eastern approaches to London, has been in the front-lin...

For two thousand years London has been at the heart of Britains development as a nation, providing a focus for its political life. The military ele...

For 2000 years, Hampshire has been at the heart of the nations defences against foreign invasion, as well as being heavily involved in civil confli...

In the 2000 years between standing on the northern edge of the Roman Empire and representing the West's response to the threat of nuclear war, hist...

Nottinghamshires position at the very heart of England has given it important strategic significance throughout two millennia, underlined by the nu...

Throughout history, Cambridgeshire (including Huntingdon and Peterborough) has figured in many of the conflicts which have shaped our nation. Doome...