Ed Glinert takes you around the most wonderful university city in the world, awesome Oxford, home of the most elegant architecture and intellectual residents.
Ed Glinert trawls through the strange stories, the crazed characters, the violent vignettes, the dried-up docks, the imaginative immigrants, the proud philanthropists to give a different history of the most misunderstood sector of the capital.
The streets of London resonate with secret stories, from East End lore to Cold War espionage, from tales of riots, rakes, anarchy and grisly murders, to Rolling Stones gigs,... Læs mere
Yorkshire: God’s own country, a land of unimaginably beautiful countryside, derelict castles, cliff-hugging coastlines, brutally bleak moors, quirkily quaint villages, wondrously winding waterways and industrial monsters of cities.
Manchester's town hall and its Royal Exchange epitomise the city's architectural grandeur and its industrial... Læs mere
Always a rum place, the industrial revolution replaced rose bushes and hedgerows with metallic roads and iron railways, mud banks gave way to deep-water docks and sweatshops. This... Læs mere
Essex: More than just the overspill from crowded London, the happy home of those lured by the sea, sand and Shoeburyness.