Like thousands of other pioneers the families who were part of the 1846 Donner-Reed wagon train headed west in search of new opportunities. But this group ...

Since the arrival of Augustine in Kent in 597, Canterbury has been the very heart of the Church in England. The Saxon cathedral, much enlarged over the ...

When architect Peter Cowman dreamed up his groundbreaking 'Be Your Own Architect' concept he quickly discovered that his university education had neglected ...

Queen of Scotland by birth, Queen of France by marriage, and Queen of England by right (some said), the life of Mary Stuart (1542-1587) was the stuff ...

"There cannot be many places in the world that produce so profound an effect upon the mind, the imagination, and the sense of beauty as." Which place is ...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing ...

Palace of Broken Dreams “A lunatic asylum, like a prison, is one of those estimable public institutions which we all admire most at a distance ...

In the light of Victorian legislation allowing local authorities to raise funds for their building, the end of the 19th and start of the 20th centuries ...

What will House Us tomorrow? How have our lifestyles changed in recent years that might demand new forms of living? Can we rearrange or redistribute existing ...

A comprehensive pocket sized handbook, The Cathedrals of England and Wales is a guide to 36 of Britain's finest holy buildings. Originally published in ...