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 ...

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.

Badbury Clump (also known as Badbury Camp, Badbury Castle, and Badbury Hill) is an Iron Age hill fort just west of Faringdon, Oxfordshire. The hill fort is circular, and though you can still see the ...

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

Find out much more about English Castles and stately homes ...

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.

There is but one living and true God, everlasting, without body, parts, or passions; of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness; the Maker, and Preserver of all things both visible and invisible. And in ...

Tea, that most quintessential of English drinks, is a relative latecomer to British shores. Although the custom of drinking tea dates back to the third millennium BC in China, it was not until the mid ...

Albeit the king's Majesty justly and rightfully is and ought to be the supreme head of the Church of England, and so is recognized by the clergy of this realm in their convocations, yet nevertheless, ...

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 ...

During the Napoleonic Wars, the British blockaded the European continent, hoping to isolate the Napoleonic Empire and bring economic hardship to the French. One result of this blockade was that goods ...