The woman took another sip from her chilled pint of lager as I sat, transfixed, my burger and fries getting cold in front of me. She was giving me directions to Bloody Meadow,...

Isabel Neville, daughter of Richard Earl of Warwick ('The Kingmaker') and his wife Anne Beauchamp,  lived during one of the most turbulent periods in medieval in England: The Wars of the Roses. The...

Looking through seventeenth-century stories of witchcraft I came across this tale. Elspeth M'Ewen was an elderly woman who lived in Bogha, near a farm in Cubbox, Balmaclellan in Western Scotland. Elspeth seems to...

During a weekend trip to Tewkesbury I decided to seek out its oldest pub, and at the end of the High Street we found it: The Olde Black Bear. As you approach from the...

The V&A is one of my favourite places to visit. I can easily spend a day wandering about the galleries completely forgetting the outside world and just being in awe of the sculpture,...