Local Interest, Family History & Nostalgia

Timber framed buildings, whether they are medieval halls, barns, grand houses, or picturesque cottages, form one of the most delightful features of...

Did you ever hear tell of Ogilvy's Mourning Warehouse in Grafton Street? Or maybe your granny went to see Monsieur Chylinkski - the modern Hercules...

It's Belfast, 1982, and an eighteen-year-old boy wearing Hai Karate aftershave has a date with destiny. He's a real man now, so he is, and shaving ...

Wales is a land haunted by its own past, with a treasure trove of beautiful and magical places some rarely visited. Chris Barber guides explorers ...

Although known worldwide as the Home of Golf, St Andrews was also the ecclesiastical powerhouse in Scotland for centuries prior to the Reformation....

In these days of ubiquitous, non-stop media and information you would think that there were few secrets anywhere left to reveal. However, when it c...

At a time when values of frugality, home, family, and care of the land seem increasingly absent, one woman looks to her past to create a life of si...

When Barbara Drake and her husband left Portland and moved to a small farm in western Oregons Yamhill Valley in the late 1980s, they saw it as a te...

Chronicling the traditions of Chinese life and culture, The Art of Chinese Living is a visual cornucopia and an epic cultural immersion into everyt...

'Frances Stonor Saunders is one of those writers you read no matter what she writes. She is that good... This is family history at its best... the ...

A ring of spectacular cemeteries, developed at the edges of London in the decade from 1832, have long been referred to as The Magnificent Seven. At...