"A sensitive walk up any High Street is a Pilgrim''s Progress" Phil Smith - playwright, walk-performance artist and author (Mythogeography and Counter-Tourism) - recently retraced…
Running’s Strangest Tales is a fascinating collection of weird and wonderful stories from the world of running, from the earliest marathon to today’s high-tech, apped-up…
This absorbing collection of stories from over a century of motor racing around the world includes the Frenchman who drove 25 miles in reverse, the Grand Prix in which the leading…
The fresh waters of the British Isles are diverse, ranging from torrential hill streams to powerful rivers and wide, meandering lowland channels. Canals and drainage channels,…
Paris Then and Now captures the changes that have taken place in the French capital from the heady days of the Belle Époque through to the 1940s.Matching classic archive images…
Topics discussed in these recorded oral interviews with residents of Stranraer and district, in south-west Scotland, include tattie howking, war, the capsizing of the Larne…
An exploration of the changing status of colour in the Victorian period through painting, sculpture, decorative arts and fashion, published to accompany an exhibition at the…
This fascinating collection of entertaining stories from the seven seas reveals unusual and bizarre sailing trips, vessels and characters, and recounts perilous journeys in freak…
Welcome to the cosy village of Woolly Bush, set deep in the heart of the English countryside. It has all the standard features of a typical village – the cake shop, the war…
A fascinating collection of bizarre but true stories from nearly 200 years of railway history.Right from the very start, when George Stephenson’s famous Rocket knocked over and…
