Schools at War marks the first time that the extraordinary tales of evacuation, improvisation, drama, and trauma experienced by many English schools during the Second World War have been collected int
Durham in A.D. 995 was?the final resting place of the mortal remains of St. Cuthbert, borne by a band of Saxon monks. The most famous saint in England for six or seven centuries, his body had been mov
Shrewsbury is an archetypal "city on a hill," the spires and towers of its churches crowning a sandstone bluff that is almost encircled by a horseshoe bend of the River Severn. Suburbs began to grow b
The village of Virginia Water shares its name with the lake at the southern end of Windsor Great Park that was created in 1746 by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, who was then the Ranger of the P
Parham House lies tranquilly at the foot of the South Downs, an Elizabethan house with weathered stone walls, glittering leaded windows and a gabled silhouette. In its ancient park, deer roam beneath
Regent Street is one of the best known streets in London. This riveting history traces its development from a royal scheme devised for the Prince Regent by his favorite architect, John Nash, in the 1
Parish registers are a vast, important but widely scattered archive. They are essential to the family historian, providing the only written record of the vast majority of our ancestors who left but t
