A look at the fascinating history behind some of the most iconic landmarks of the British landscape.  Meer

Victoria Owens explores the work of James Brindley and Francis Egerton, Third Duke of Bridgewater.  Meer

The fascinating story about how a pioneering Victorian businesswoman came to head the largest ironworks in the world. Original research - uses Charlotte's previously unpublished manuscript journals in the National Library of Wales, and the Dowlais Iron Company papers in Glamorgan Records Office.  Meer

Nancy Mitford once observed that some of the most bitter personal clashes of all time have been 'between the Manor and the Vicarage'. Owen Chadwick's Victorian Miniature paints a detailed cameo of nineteenth-century English rural life, in the extraordinary battle of wills between squire and parson in a Norfolk village.  Meer

Victoria's Requiem is among the best-loved and most-performed musical works of the Renaissance, and is often held to be 'a Requiem for an age', representing the summation of golden-age Spanish polyphony.  Meer

Victoria's Requiem is among the best-loved and most-performed musical works of the Renaissance, and is often held to be 'a Requiem for an age', representing the summation of golden-age Spanish polyphony.  Meer