Town before Gown – Oxford before the University
This is the last in Joe Chick’s series of historic town walks using the Victoria County History’s app for mobile devices. ‘A History of English Places’ brings the VCH’s histories together with first edition Ordnance Survey mapping across England. Learn more...
Guided Reading – Berkshire’s County Town on the Eve of the Dissolution
Dr Joe Chick arms himself with ‘A History of English Places’, the App for mobile devices developed by the Victoria County History (VCH) with Aimer Media. This time, he invites us to join him in Reading to explore the monastic influences still visible in the Berkshire...
Boats and Buses – The Stories behind Bristol’s Streetscapes
By Joe Chick In my four previous walks, I’ve explored towns and cities in the east and Midlands. In this blog I’m exploring a city on the boundaries of the English Midlands and the south west, a port that dominated trade with France, Ireland and Wales...