More posts with an historical bent can be found on the National Trust and English Heritage page.

• ‘Abandon hope, all ye who enter here . . . ‘
• ‘Capability’ by name, ‘Capability’ by nature . . . (updated 27 July 2017)
• ‘Mont St Jean’, ‘La Belle Alliance’ or just plain ‘Waterloo’?
• ‘When a family lives in the same place for 400 years they end up with a diverse collection of art, furniture and curiosities.’
• 11-11-11
• 600 years in the same family
• A castle slighted – if only walls could talk
• A majestic link with the agriculture of medieval England
• A working-class movement for political reform
• All families have their problems – some more than others
• Almost 400 years of history in the vicinity . . .
• Are there degrees of tyranny?
• Breathing life into history
• Candles, paraffin lamps, electricity . . . and a ‘rule of thumb’
• Fashion, so said Louis XIV, is the mirror of history
• From car park to cathedral . . . missing no longer!
• Hanbury Hall – a disputed date
• Industrial heritage is all around . . .
• Ireland’s turbulent history
• It was inevitable, really . . .
• Just 120 feet . . . and history was made
• Just a few taps is all it takes nowadays
• Just twenty miles but more than a thousand years . . .
• Like a lady revealing her petticoats . . .
• Nature abhors a vacuum . . .
• No laughing matter
• Orange and Green: tribal loyalties and conflict in Northern Ireland
• Peeling away the veneers of history
• Silent witness to centuries of history
• Spirit of the Industrial Revolution
• The Man in the Moon
• The missing monarchs . . .
• What if?
• When coal was king . . .
• Life in a northern town . . .
• We called them the ‘Cobridge Alps’ . . .