These Islands

Read a news report on an incident of coastal erosion and you’ll find the writer — and the featured...

by Kit Ward

Here’s an oddity, a grave secured by a mortsafe in the burial ground of the church of St Edmund,...

by Kit Ward

As regular readers will know, I’ve been running my own publishing imprint, Prydain Press, for a few years now....

by Kit Ward

There has been a meat market at Smithfield for at least 800 years and probably closer to a thousand....

by Kit Ward

There is a weather-beaten, lichen-stained monument by the beach at Walmer in Kent, which is easy to miss if...

by Kit Ward

Henry VI, the ‘royal Saint’ in Wordsworth’s poem, wasn’t a great success as a king. He lost almost all...

by Kit Ward

In March 1817, soon after the Elgin Marbles first went on display in the British Museum, John Keats went...

by Kit Ward

It’s very difficult for historical sites, especially in the English-speaking world, to resist Disneyfication. Ironbridge Gorge is no exception....

by Kit Ward