As a Battlefield Gide I take groups of adults and children of all ages to the battlefields in Western Europe and when people ask me about what I do the almost invariable response is that they remember going from school or that it is something that they have always...

If you love reading, if you love books, if you love words, then this book is definitely for you. It is the true story of a boy growing up in the 70s and 80s in a relatively deprived area of the northwest who finds a love of reading and collecting books. From an early...

About 5 miles west of Stilton, famous for its (not made locally) cheese, lies the village of Fotheringay and its ruined castle. I first heard of the village from reading Jean Plaidy's novel ‘Royal Road to Fotheringay’, but where does the castle figure in our review of...

In a few weeks time our televisions screens and newspapers will be full, quite rightly, of the commemorations for the 80th anniversary of the D Day landings. One event which you probably don’t know about and which, unless you live in the south west of England, you...

In a few weeks time it will be 379 years since there was fought one of the most important battles in the Civil War. It happened on our doorstep and this month I want to take you there. The battle took place some 40 miles west of Huntingdon along the A14, a 45 minute...

I know that a lot of people think that history is a dry and dusty subject not really relevant to modern life. ‘After all’, I have heard people say ‘what can you do with a history degree, teach history?’ History is a living subject, history is being made every day. It...

Any reference to cavalry conjures up images of courageous horsemen charging across the battlefield running down the enemy but an image of Huntingdonshire Cyclist Battalion perhaps doesn’t have quite the same romantic magic. However, the role carried out by them was...

By the time that you read this article the chances are that you will have made your resolutions and in most cases have already broken them but I did think that you might be interested in how the making of New Years Resolutions came about. The first recorded making of...

It is the time of year again when at 11a.m. on 11th November (the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month) that we remember the sacrifice of the thousands of men and women of the United Kingdom of England Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland armed...

As a Battlefield Guide I take groups of adults and children of all ages to the battlefields in Western Europe and when people ask me about what I do the almost invariable response is that they remember going from school or that it is something that they have always...