Celebrating 100 years of the BBC Shipping Forecast, Jane Russell takes us on a series of coastal cruises through the forecast sea areas, exploring some of the special places on offer in each of them

With a season of winter storms approaching James Batty explains how to make the most of the great bass fishing that comes during or after a big blow

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Our pick of the latest military history books

Anchored in a quiet loch on the west coast of Scotland, Katherine Knight discovered the seabed was barren mud. She raised a small community and set out to replant the underwater desert with life-giving seagrass

Tennyson’s embrace of science and catastrophe theory