English Buildings

Markers of significance Oh I do like a good sign. Shop signs, inn signs, ghost signs, road signs. Signs that tell us to ‘Commit no nuisance’...

The great indoors, 2 The other day I did a Google image search of ’Stourhead’ and eight of the first ten pictures it produced featured the P...

  Marking the way Milestones go back as far as the Romans. The invaders who did so much for us erected a marker stone every 1000 double pace...

Hidden treasure A few miles from where I live, hidden in a wood on a slope of the Cotswolds, lie the fragmentary remains of a Roman villa. ...

For my third pre-Christmas book review: Roman Britain revisited... Charlotte Higgins, Under Another Sky Published by Jonathan Cape In s...

Not dark yet I have never forgotten an early school history lesson during which we moved from the Romans to the period after they left the s...

English Elysium Rousham House, built in the 1630s and altered by William Kent in the mid-18th century, is set in a 25-acre garden that is on...

What the Romans did for us The Romans – and those among the British who adopted the Roman way of life during the occupation – built a great ...

What the Romans did for me Some time at the very end of the 19th century, my maternal grandmother lived with her parents and siblings in a h...