These Islands

Visit the church of St Mary’s in Northchurch, Hertfordshire and you will see, on a raised section of the...

by Kit Ward

If Edmund Burke was right that the dead are as much a part of Society as the living, then...

by Kit Ward

Wellclose Square is nothing to look at today, dominated as it is by regulation-ugly blocks of council flats, but...

by Kit Ward

On the face of it, Milton Keynes is a model of rational town planning, built from scratch fifty years...

by Kit Ward

Boxmoor Common is a pleasant place for a stroll on a warm spring day, verging on the bucolic were...

by Kit Ward

There are sundials great and small everywhere in Oxford. One of the most impressive adorns the library of All...

by Kit Ward

We all know that precept about an Englishman’s home being his castle, but as the quotation from Sir Edward...

by Kit Ward

John Drinkwater’s Robinson of England is a very peculiar novel indeed. I don’t mean funny-peculiar, but peculiar in the...

by Kit Ward