These Islands

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

I’m not old enough to remember the Great Train Robbery of 1963, but I am old enough to remember...

by Kit Ward

As with most Britons alive today, there hasn’t been a change of the UK’s Sovereign in my lifetime. Not...

by Kit Ward