This semi detached cottage is located next to the owners' farmhouse near to Haverfordwest in South Wales and can sleep four people in two bedrooms. Stable Cottage is a semi detached barn conversion ...

This wonderful cottage is located in Malltraeth, Anglesey and can sleep six people in three bedrooms. Fisherman's Cottage is a historic house located in Malltraeth, Wales, and is set over three floors ...

The [Napoleonic] war had caused distress, the price of food had risen to a very high point, and wages had fallen because the supply of labour was greater than the demand; the more so because the ...

Our look at the lives of people in the fields of art, architecture, science, and literature throughout British history. From Geoffrey Chaucer to William Morris, Christopher Wren to Isaac Newton.

The earliest English gardens that we know of were planted by the Roman conquerors of Britain in the 1st century AD. The Roman gardens that we know the most about are those of the large villas and ...

As its name suggests, the chief characteristic of Perpendicular architecture is the emphasis on strong vertical lines, seen most markedly in window tracery and wall panelling. Roof vaulting became ...

We know very little of the first few hundred years of the Anglo-Saxon, or "English", era, primarily because the invaders were an illiterate people. Our earliest records of them are little more than ...

Unfortunately, Hicks died before the restoration work could begin, and the task of overseeing the restoration fell to his young assistant, an aspiring young architect by the name of Thomas Hardy.

At the southern end of Lover's Walk in Greenwich Park, a stone's throw from Maze Hill Gate and a short stroll east of the Royal Observatory, is a fallen oak tree, its ancient centre hollowed with the ...

The Iron Age is the age of the "Celt" in Britain. Over the 500 or so years leading up to the first Roman invasion, a Celtic culture established itself throughout the British Isles. Who were these ...

Robert Kett was a yeoman farmer, a native of Wymondham, Norfolk. We know little of his early life, but we certainly know about the end of it. In 1549 Kett led a rebellion against the practice of ...

St Peter's Church in the Lancashire village of Heysham is one of the oldest places of Christian worship in Western Europe. It celebrated its official millennial anniversary in 1967, making it now over ...