In the North Wessex Downs in Berkshire and not far from the town of Newbury is Greenham Common, a large expanse of common land which...

Salisbury is a city which takes St George's Day very seriously indeed, with an annual day of celebration in the Market Square which...

The more gruesome side of social history has always appealed to the darker side of people's curiosity and in recent years, prison museums...

(This article was originally published in the magazine for CAF - the Commemorative Air Force, based in Dallas Texas, who I wrote it for...

The Gloucester History Spring Festival is nearly upon us, and we have been very lucky for BBC journalist Vernon Harwood to write a piece...

A vast network of rooms and passageways underneath the streets of Westminster in London allowed Britain’s war cabinet to plan strategies...

Christchurch is a small historic town on the south coast, once an important trading port and famed for its smugglers of the 18th and 19th...

So the final day of the festival is upon us, the tents are being dismantled, swords and lances packed away, the tanks are rumbling off...

Butser Ancient Farm, on the Hampshire/Sussex border, is in a beautiful green valley filled with historic buildings. These have been...