These Islands

Fleet Prison, so-called because it was located close to the River Fleet, was located just outside the medieval city...

by Kit Ward

More than half a century on, though Sixties London may conjure up ideas of hedonism, rebellion and freedom, there...

by Kit Ward

The Tower of London has held a number of notable prisoners, among them Sir Walter Raleigh, Samuel Pepys, and...

by Kit Ward

As a child of London, Cleopatra’s Needle has long been present in my memory and my imagination. But it...

by Kit Ward

Stonehenge may be the best-known Neolithic monument in Britain but it has never stood in glorious, awe-inspiring isolation. In...

by Kit Ward

If the newspapers are to be believed (a big ‘if', I know), the appearance of several three-foot-high figures of...

by Kit Ward

After Brian Epstein’s death, the Beatles were effectively managing themselves for a time and the business that was the...

by Kit Ward

The Saxon princess-abbess-saint Frideswide was not the founder of Oxford: there was certainly a settlement at the confluence of...

by Kit Ward