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A-Z of Rochester A - American Indian Bean Tree, Commonly Known as the Cigar Tree In the early 2000s the 100-year-old American Indian Bean tree standing outside Rochester Cathedral (see Cathedral) began to rot from the inside, causing it to...

I was very pleased when my Editor, Nick Grant, proposed three years ago that for my new commission I write a book about East Anglian Authors. I had previously written seven books for Amberley, but as I have been an...

Classic cars, especially Triumphs and Standards, old buses and coaches as well as railways have been a passion for much of my life, so it¡¯s no great surprise that book number three for Amberley takes us back to the Standard...

The Beauty & Beast of Camping (Jura & Islay, Scottish West Coast Isles) Camping. It¡¯s a thing I never enjoyed as a child. Because we never did it. It just wasn¡¯t on the radar. My parents were always busy with...

The first time I went out of my way to see a church was in summer 1976 (which was for me the time between school and university). Encouraged by my English teacher (and later friend), Ray Winch, I began to...

Birth of the Red Dragon: Wales and the Wars of the Roses - Introduction At the parliament of 1536, Henry VIII, despite two marriages, remained without the son he craved to ensure the succession of the Tudor dynasty. The parliament...

Chapter 1: Childhood Objects from the Portable Antiquities Scheme What do we mean by ¡®childhood¡¯ when looking at the past, when for a large expanse of human existence we have no firm evidence of how it might have been perceived...

The Liberation of Strasbourg 1944: Introduction I started looking into the liberation of Strasbourg after reading Charles de Gaulle¡¯s memoirs, where he hails General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque¡¯s drive across the Alsatian plain to the historic city. Even if de...

Introduction For centuries Hertfordshire was known for malt, and malting was the county¡¯s first industry. John Taylor wrote in 1636: ¡®Hertfordshire is a County that surpasseth all other Countries and Counties for making the best malt.¡¯ Almost a century later...

Footpaths: Ancient Origins: Animal Tracks The oldest footpaths in the British Isles weren¡¯t formed by feet at all, but by paws and hooves. Many of the paths still walked today were trodden out by animals, 10,000 years ago. Four-legged beasts...