This week I wrote about a special place I visited back in 2018 - the Hardknott Roman Fort in Cumbria, which was one of Rome's furthest outposts in Britain.
This week, I share another excerpt from my upcoming book 'Searching for the Heart of Britain' - this original chapter is about our favorite hotel in London, which we've gone…
This week, I share some major updates on my preparations to walk Hadrian's Wall next summer. Then we delve deep into the history of what life would be like along…
This week, I explore one of my favorite sounds of the English countryside, the calls of the various owls that stalk the night. We also have a wonderful new discount…
This week, I share some amusing stories and experiences that happened when I got sick while traveling to the UK. We're not back to 250 members, and there have been…
This week, we visit a pub that all the cool kids are going to, and the experience doesn't really match the glossy picture on social media because nothing really can.
This week I write about a special place that I was surprised to see I'd never written about before, a lovely Palladian village church in Hertfordshire.
This article is part of an irregular ongoing series where I chronicle my plans to walk Hadrian’s Wall in summer 2026. I plan to use these articles to keep everyone…
This article chronicles a guided tour through Christ Church that I took while I was there for a course in 2022. We look at how Cardinal Wolsey's ambitious 16th-century vision…
This week, I share my experience returning to Portsmouth Historic Dockyard after a 10-year gap in visits. I got to visit during an Oxford Summer Course and communed with HMS…
This week we visit one of Britain's largest cities and explore what life was life in the high-Victorian-era slum that is now called the Birmingham Back to Backs, one of…
This week, I dust off an old goal and some even older guidebooks to talk about something I have been wanting to do for almost fifteen years - walk the…
This week, inspired by my favorite mugs, I share details of a special tour we took in 2016 of the Emma Bridgewater factory in Stoke-on-Trent. It's a fascinating look at…
This week, we visit Wordsworth House in Cockermouth and reveal the Georgian townhouse where England's great nature poet first discovered his twin loves of literature and the landscape. I visited…
This week's Sunday Post is jam-packed! First up, we're celebrating the one-year anniversary of the club. The forum has also been very active this week with a lot of interesting…
This week, we journey underground to an abandoned Tube station beneath the streets of Piccadilly that was once Churchill's secret wartime bunker. It was a fascinating tour as part of…
For this week's Sunday Post, I uncovered an interview from our deep archive that I never properly wrote about, and turned it into a lovely long-read about the behind-the-scenes workings…