Parakeets in my parents garden, a common sight across London and the suburbs, apparently.

A little reminder of home when we were in London the other week...

I first met Stuart Windsor many years ago at a Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) event at which Baroness Caroline Cox was telling a pr...

When I was young, a visit to a steam railway was always a special treat - a great family day out. Trying to capture something of the ...

The British Railways standard class engines, designed and built in the 1950s, were hybrids - seeking to combine the best engineering tr...

The BR 9F is a great beast of an engine, which must be both fed and watered. And handled, with great care, and huge s...

"This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War" is a collection of sixteen stand-alone essays by James M. McPherson, man...