The Thames at Runnymede © NTPL

  • Walking Into History 6 Aug 10

    …so proclaimed Rudyard Kipling’s poem of 1911, but one thing that neither the reeds – nor anyone else for that matter – can tell you is exactly where it was, on these lush, well-watered... Read More

  • Knights Of The Air 9 Jul 10

    Under the dimmed lights of the RAF Museum’s Battle of Britain exhibition hall, Spitfires and Hurricanes, and Stukas and Messerschmitts, face each other across the aisles, just as they did in the... Read More

  • Canons & Du Cros In The Spotlight 28 May 10

    Sir Arthur Philip Du Cros (1871-1955), the third of seven sons brought up in modest circumstances in Ireland, became a quintessential Edwardian English gentleman with an eclectic selection of... Read More

  • The Chiltern Way Walking Festival 30 Apr 10

    The Chiltern Way – a rambling, varied and mostly rural route that stretches around this Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and passes through many pretty villages – was established by volunteers... Read More

  • News From Nowhere 7 Aug 09

    If you have a beautiful wife who is enjoying a passionate love affair with a close friend, it might seem a good idea (however liberal and progressive your views) to whisk her away from London to an... Read More

  • Tom Craven In The Spotlight 8 May 09

    Acoustic guitarist Tom Craven is gradually making his mark, now with dates over the pond in America under his belt and a brand new album on the way. Russell Carpenter meets the Watford musician... Read More

  • Courtiers, Queens & Rolling Stones 9 Apr 09

    It’s possible that Knebworth House is unique in being able to boast both a militant suffragette and an early feminist writer amongst its former inhabitants… The many illustrious Lyttons who’ve... Read More

  • Far Over The Misty Mountains Cold 23 Aug 08

    The gentle, underpopulated greenery of the Shropshire border country never fails to delight. Great oaks stand like monuments in the middle of fields, or burst clear from the tops of high grassy banks... Read More

  • Eccentric Owners & Old Masters 21 Jun 08

    Built between 1780 and 1783, Buscot Park is a classic Georgian mansion. Its first owner was the unusually named Edward Loveden Loveden who paid £20,186 for it. His great-grandson, Sir Pryse Pryse... Read More

  • A Spire To Aspire To… 12 Apr 08

    Salisbury is Wiltshire’s only city, the age old communication crossing point for a region not much given to large settlements. One of the characters in Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit fancied it ‘a... Read More

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