What can plant and insect fossils tell us about the way people ate? Archaeologist Dr Ruth Pelling explains all.Read more

There’s nowhere else quite like Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. With around 14,000 sites, buildings and monuments protected on the National Heritage List for England, Cornwall offers an enormous amount of stories to discover. Here are just a few historic highlights: Attractive architecture One of the most spectacular buildings in Cornwall is the Egyptian House in Penzance, built between 1834 and 1837 for John Lavin, a mineral and fossil collector and dealer. The Egyptian style was at the heightRead more

For World Book Day, here are some brilliant bookshops from around the country.Read more

With hundreds of thousands of men away fighting during the Second World War, labour shortages became acute. Women were needed to fill men’s roles. Read more

Shropshire is rich with remnants from history, from the Iron Age to the Industrial revolution.Read more