Feature: Towers of Power

8th June 2018

Sophie Campbell takes us around some of Britain’s best castles Castles are our earliest live-work spaces: too fortified to be houses, too domesticated to be fortresses. It’s the marriage of form and function that makes them truly fascinating to visitors – not to mention their strategic location in the landscape, their fabulous views, bristling defences […]

MY FAVOURITE

6th June 2018

Blue Badge Guides show you their favourite places around the UK.

News: Vanity Project

6th June 2018

A new £10 million TV adaptation of Thackeray’s classic novel Vanity Fair will be broadcast on ITV later this year. The literary classic, set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, follows Becky Sharp as she attempts to claw her way out of poverty and scale the heights of English society. This is the fifth […]

News: Arty Facts

6th June 2018

The Royal Academy of Arts is 250 this year. Britain’s oldest art school – whereTurner and Constable learned to paint –is celebrating its birthday with a radically transformed interior that opens to the public in May. The £50 million redevelopment connects the 18th-century Burlington House on Piccadilly with the Palazzo on Burlington Gardens. British architect […]

Tour De Force: A Hill of a Time

6th June 2018

Blue Badge Guide Gavin Webb takes us around the bohemian village of Hampstead Tour de Force

Feature: The Inn Crowd

6th June 2018

From urban ‘boozers’ to snug country inns, there are 50,000 pubs in Britain – Marc Zakian uncovers their history ALE IN A DAY’S WORK The first recorded English alehouse was called Hell. Was it named for serving the devil’s brew, or as a refuge for spouses who’d been told where to go? We will […]

Tour De Force: Writing About Nottingham

4th June 2018

Blue Badge Guide Felicity Whittle tours us around Nottingham’s literary history.

News: Suffragette Cities

1st June 2018

2018 is the 100th anniversary of the Representation of the People Act, the law granting certain women the right to vote. There are countrywide events planned to mark the centenary. In April, a statue to suffragist leader Millicent Fawcett will be unveiled in London’sParliament Square – the first woman to be honoured in that prestigious […]