Category: History

Until my late twenties, Hadrian’s Wall lived in my head as a single line: one emperor, one big decision, a neat stone barrier keeping “Romans” on one side and “barbarians”…

My relationship with London Black Death history started, oddly enough, with a badly drawn rat. I was about ten. A primary school project, one of those sugar-paper posters with titles…

My relationship with the Domesday Book started with a bored teenage me in a draughty county record office, flicking through a modern English translation and thinking, “So this is it?…

When people ask me for “Domesday Book villages to visit”, I usually disappoint them by saying something very un-touristy: the most Domesday-ish places in England often feel oddly ordinary. No…

I didn’t care about the Domesday Book at university. It felt like admin: lists of manors, taxes, plough-teams. The sort of thing someone in a beige cardigan would get very…

Tracing the Domesday Villages: A Modern Journey Through England’s Oldest Survey I first met the Domesday Book in a school textbook, somewhere between the Bayeux Tapestry and Magna Carta. It…

Following the Forgotten Frontier: Exploring England’s Overlooked Anglo‑Saxon Borderlands I first started thinking seriously about Anglo-Saxon frontier landscapes in England on a dull coach trip during GCSE history. We’d been…

Walking With the Romans: Visiting the Places Where Everyday Life Unfolded in Britain I used to think Roman Britain everyday life was all about emperors, battles and those straight roads…

Hey there, travel pals! If you’re anything like me, you love a good adventure mixed with a healthy dose of history. The UK is positively bursting with ancient ruins and…

Exploring History: Fun and Quirky Facts About the UK’s Storied Past Alright, mate, grab a cuppa and settle in because we’re about to take a cheeky little stroll through some…