Hot cockles, handball and hide-and-seek

A Queer Inheritance: Alternative Histories in the National ...

You wouldn’t guess from the cover design—three songbirds silhouetted over swatches of picturesque Englishness—but Catherine Clarke’s A History of England in 25 Poems hits one of its sweet spots with a

They punctuate the British landscape like few other buildings - Clare Hunt looks at the not-so humble cottage

H&H’s hunting editor Catherine Austen ponders the lasting impressions that influential hunting people can make on us

In the early 1940s, the Royal Mint replaced the familiar image of a portcullis on the threepenny coin with a thrift plant. This was part of the government’s campaign reminding the public of the need f

The Penal Laws of the 1690s restricted the ability of Irish Catholics to access education by prohibiting the establishment of Catholic schools. Catholic children were instead taught in informal school