Many of Shropshire’s towns have connections to influential events on the national and global stage, and many offer unusual heritage stories.Read more

The British Highway Code – ‘…a guide to the proper use of the highway and a code of good manners…’ – celebrates the 90th anniversary of its first publication in 2021.Read more

Discover the amazing sites that tell us so much about the culture, beliefs and society of Anglo-Saxon England.Read more

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