Belfast City Hall is one of those buildings that seems to steady the city around it. Grand without being stuffy, ornate without tipping into absurdity, …
Belfast City Hall, the great stone stage at the centre of Belfast
Historic Attractions
Windsor Castle visitor guide, history, highlights and tips
Perched above the Thames with the sort of quiet confidence that comes from being nearly a thousand years old, Windsor Castle is not just a …
Best things to do in Gloucester for a memorable city break
Gloucester is one of those cities that can seem oddly modest at first, as if it has no intention of showing off, and then suddenly …
Tintagel Castle review
Tintagel Castle is one of those places that arrives with an unfair advantage. It has cliffs, sea spray, ruined walls, a footbridge dangling dramatically over …
London’s Natural History Museum tops the UK visitor charts
The Natural History Museum was the UK’s most visited attraction in 2025, pulling in a record 7.1 million visitors and nudging the British Museum into …
Coventry, the city that refused to stay down
Coventry is one of those places that has had the sort of history that would have sent a lesser city quietly off for a lie …
Bedfordshire, a gentle county with deer, dukes and the odd lion
Bedfordshire is one of those counties that often sneaks under the radar. Wedged between the busier worlds of London, Cambridge and the Midlands, it sits …
Alfred the Great, the king who saved England
Few figures from the early Middle Ages have loomed quite so large in English history as Alfred the Great. Born in the ninth century, when …
Jane Austen, a quiet revolutionary of English literature
Few writers have managed to capture the delicate dance of human manners, love, and ambition with the wit and precision of Jane Austen. Living a …
Winchester Cathedral: A thousand years of faith and stone
Few buildings in England carry the weight of history quite like Winchester Cathedral. Rising above the old capital of Anglo-Saxon England, it has stood for …