July 2012

Dateline

[caption id="Dateline_img1" align="aligncenter" width="504"] Who would have thought that a century and a half later Hudson Taylor would put Barnsley on the map?[/caption]

The Queen’s Jubilee Year

Hardy’s Wessex & Jane’s World

Perhaps no two writers are more typically English than the well-loved novelists Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy. Like bookends on an age, Austen and Hardy demarcate the Victorian era, pointing back to whence it came and forward to our modern world. Here is an easy itinerary that brings the authors to life.

Elizabethan Mysteries to an Alien Pyramid

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What’s Up With London?

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Medieval Haddon All

Crossing the Shifting Sands

A Day to visit Oxford

Kilted at Macnaughtons of Pitlochry since 1835

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Beyond the Bookshelf

Cover your back: That’s what best friends do

Anglo-File

Commonplace Book

[caption id="CommonplaceBook_img1" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] The ultimate shotgun for the Glorious Twelfth might be this Purdey Sporter, starting at around £55,000.[/caption]