The national tourism organisation for Scotland, VisitScotland, has since 2009 been running themed years to celebrate aspects of Scotland – i...

To celebrate Black History Month 2022 , on this week's blog we have each chosen a favourite historical novel written by a Black or Asian...

The Butterfly Club books are about the ultimate kind of travel – time travel. They are about meeting like-minded people in other places. The...

On a chilly morning in early autumn, a funeral procession moves through the silent streets of London. The coffin has come from the grand sur...

I have long harboured an ambition to visit the wonderfully eccentric Gothic Revival villa of Strawberry Hill House in Twickenham, the creat...

As you will all know, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II sadly died earlier this month at the age of 96. As a nation, we said goodbye to her at ...

As well as looking at pictures and photographs, interviewing people, going to museums, watching films, YouTube, historical documentaries, re...

Since 1840, Kew Gardens has been a public Botanical Garden. It's now also famous for its Millenium Seed Bank which conserves over 2.4 bi...

The historic county of Lancashire was the birthplace of England’s first industrial canals. Canals were created as an alternative way to tr...