My husband, John, decided that he wanted to visit the Haynes Motor Museum, located near the small village of Sparkford in Somerset. As a lad he and his mates had spent many happy hours tinkering with

I’LL never forget the first time we visited the city of Chester – in fact, it couldn’t have been a more opportune occasion. My eight-year-old son, Peter, was studying Romans at school and Cheshire’s c

The earth-shattering collapse of the Western Roman Empire was the result of invasions, corruption and cruelty

It took Sarah Biddulph a while to work up to tackling the long borders at Rodmarton Manor. Not just because of their sheer size, but also because they are the centrepiece of an Arts & Crafts garden th

The normal diet of gladiators was vegetarian, but not through choice or principle. The rations in their barracks consisted of sagina, which literally translates as ‘stuffing’. It was a barley and bean

Architectural statements: the conquering Normans sent out a ...