by neil_admin | Feb 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
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...
by neil_admin | Oct 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
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...
by neil_admin | Aug 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
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...
by neil_admin | Jun 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
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...
by neil_admin | May 19, 2024 | Uncategorized
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...
by neil_admin | Apr 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
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...
