Places & Peoples: General & Pictorial Works

Oxford History Tour is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this venerable old university city. Local author Stanley C. Jenkins guides ...

The lost colony of Roanoke Island, North Carolina, was England's first bold experiment in civilian empire building and the first attempt at peacefu...

Palestinian French artist Taysir Batniji is the third recipient of Immersion, a French American Photography Commission, a program launched by the ...

If you give anything to a Norwegian (old meat tins are always thankfully received), he will give your hand a silent grip more expressive than many ...

Secret Abergavenny offers a unique insight into the sleepy Welsh market town, proving that theres a lot more to the Gateway to Wales than meets the...

Darlington is rightly famous for its involvement in the introduction and subsequent development of the railways in the UK. As such, it carries resp...

Northampton has rather more going for it than is often realised. Its industrial exploits have left it with a unique townscape, at last being proper...

Explore the secret, quirky and curious history of Londons well-known squares. Authors Alan Brooke and David Brandon have made some strange discover...

Woking is a rather strange place. The Saxon village of Old Woking appears in the Domesday Book but new Woking is a nineteenth-century town. Over th...

It is fascinating to think that many hundreds of generations of Londoners lie beneath the city without us knowing. Over many centuries burial groun...