These Islands

When, in 1901, Andrew Carnegie sold his steel business and pocketed $250 million (approximately $9 billion today), he became...

by Kit Ward

I wrote about a Green Man in Birmingham seven years ago, but this (golden) example in the cloisters of...

by Kit Ward

Orford Ness, on the Suffolk coast, is the epitome of a dynamic landscape. It’s described as Europe’s largest vegetated...

by Kit Ward

Until I visited Bury St Edmunds, I had no idea that St Edmund, King of East Anglia and Christian...

by Kit Ward

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