Centuries of starlight

I used to describe myself as ‘chronically late’. Having grown up in Uruguay, this was simply the norm. Timings there were as much a suggestion as red traffic lights were: open to personal interpretati

Journey across the universe – without leaving the UK

Two years ago, I was standing in the car park at the Stonehenge Visitor Centre on a cold, clear December evening. I had only recently started working for English Heritage and it was a few weeks before

We leave La Serena at dusk, heading east towards the stars. The 90-minute drive winds through the Elqui Valley, lush green with vineyards and home to skies so dark that international observatories on

Ancient India gave the world its number system, anticipated Galileo’s heliocentric theory by a millennium and spread its culture from Egypt to Siberia–only to be almost entirely forgotten. It’s past time to restore it to its rightful place in history

Gin, witches, regicide, boats, nudists, an Egyptian curse, Spitfires, the invention of windsurfing and more writers and vineyards than you can shake a fishing rod at: this beloved English county has it all. Here are 13 stories you may never have heard about Hampshire