These Islands

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

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

Bristol’s connection with the slave trade goes back a long way, a thousand years and more. Slavery was an...

by Kit Ward

There aren’t many material traces of the Anglo-Saxons visible in London, at least within the bounds of the old...

by Kit Ward

The title of this post sounds like it might belong to a story by Agatha Christie or Dorothy L...

by Kit Ward

In 1874 John Ruskin, art critic, Fellow of Christ Church, and Slade Professor of Fine Art, was riding out...

by Kit Ward