Amy Johnson became a living legend after becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia. Here we look at her extraordinary story.Read more

You can trace the architectural history of your house through old maps, photographs and written records, and many of these useful resources are online. Kate Bevan, Cataloging Team Leader for Historic England, lives in a semi-detached house in Faringdon, a market town in the Vale of the White Horse, Oxfordshire. She had an idea from the mortgage documents that the house was built in around the 1920s, but wanted to try and find out exactly when. Here Kate takes usRead more

Residents first moved in to Welwyn Garden City in December 1920. Here we look at its story from founding to the present day.Read more

We’ve delved into the Historic England Archive to uncover some of the people, places and heritage of North West England.Read more

Mills are a rich and fascinating part of our history. These sleeping giants are a defining feature on the skyline of our industrial landscape, standing as a tangible link to the past.