The Stable pet friendly self catering holiday cottage in Llandysul, Ceredigion, sleeping 4 people, from £350 per week. Part of the Britain Express travel guide to Dyfed.

Information on St Mary Magdalene Church, Cobham, Kent, home of the superb Cobham Brasses, with a church history, beautiful ...

Information on the medieval church of St Helen, Cliffe, Kent, with a church history, beautiful photos, what to see, and ...

Information on the outstanding medieval church of St Peter & St Paul, Appledore, Kent, with a church history, beautiful ...

Information on the Iron Age hill fort of Badbury Clump, near Faringdon, Oxfordshire, with a site history, what to see, ...

Information on All Saints Church, Tudeley, Kent, famous for its twelve stained glass windows designed by artist Marc Chagall, with a church history, beautiful photos, what to see, and visiting ...

Our look at the lives of people in the fields of art, architecture, science, and literature throughout British history. From Geoffrey Chaucer to William Morris, Christopher Wren to Isaac Newton.

The earliest English gardens that we know of were planted by the Roman conquerors of Britain in the 1st century AD. The Roman gardens that we know the most about are those of the large villas and ...

In some ways the medieval history of London can be said to have begun on Christmas Day, 1066, when William the Conqueror was crowned king of England in a ceremony at the newly finished Westminster ...

The term "Gothic Revival" (sometimes called Victorian Gothic) usually refers to the period of mock-Gothic architecture practised in the second half of the 19th century. That time frame can be a little ...

The strongest ties in Anglo-Saxon society were to kin and lord. The ties of loyalty were to the person of a lord, not to his station. There was no real concept of patriotism or loyalty to a cause.

We know very little of the first few hundred years of the Anglo-Saxon, or "English", era, primarily because the invaders were an illiterate people. Our earliest records of them are little more than ...