My regular readers will know that I love history. I also love a well-researched novel about British royalty and the Tudor ...

Worthy Farm in Somerset, where Glastonbury Festival has been held 39 times, is 25 miles away from the sea. But once a year it ...

Brief synthesis The Tower of London is an internationally famous monument and one of England’s most iconic structures. William the Conqueror built the White Tower in 1066 as a demonstration of Norman ...

The Tower Theatre Company will be staging Herman Melville's Moby Dick in Stoke Newington from Wednesday, July 2 to Sunday, July 6. The adaptation has been put together by Paul Graves and director ...

Another popular sight at the Tower are its most famous modern residents: the ravens. According to tradition, King Charles II (r. 1660-1685) claimed that “if ever the ravens leave the Tower, the ...

Originally built in 1972 as part of the rush of reconstruction in post-war London, it had already stood for decades and was starting to look old. But, as Leger says, at that point “the tower was ...

South London student tower blocks refused over impacts on World Heritage Site One councillor called the Greenwich Maritime views "part of what makes Greenwich" News By ...

Grenfell is not just a burning scar on Britain’s conscience it’s another example of a country that lets the marginalised rot while the powerful shrug, says Brian Reade ...