Literary Britain
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The Shire
Birmingham is not necessarily the first place you’d think of to be the inspiration for an…
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Blue Remembered Hills
Alfred Edward Housman is best remembered today for A Shropshire Lad, a cycle of poems celebrating…
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Newstead! Fast-falling, once resplendent dome!
In the little town of Hucknall, nestling in the forest of East Nottinghamshire, is the Church…
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Eastwood
I lived in that house from the age of 8 to 16, andI know that view…
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Once a Rebel, Always a Rebel
Nottingham has a reputation as a rebellious city. They supported the Parliamentarian cause in the Civil…
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The Tolkien Triangle
The name given to the roughly triangular, Eastern part of Yorkshire bounded by Flamborough Head to…
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By the Tide of Humber
“Had we but world enough and time,This coyness, Lady, were no crime,We would sit down, and…
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Out to where the Essex Marsh…
It is always an absolute pleasure to drive through drive through Essex. Despite the popular media…
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A Port Without Trade
Kirkcudbright, (or ‘Kirkubree’) is a very picturesque, small fishing town on the South Coast of Galloway…
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Queen of the South
Dumfries, the ‘Queen of the South’: important trading town on the river Nith, the administrative centre…
Literary Britain 