Middlesex: the county that vanished?
The Oxford Companion to British History describes Middlesex as "one of the smallest, oldest and strangest of counties". Counties Counties (also called shires, hence Cheshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire) have a long…
London: the city as a phoenix [Part 2] – the Blitz and St. Paul’s
The Great Fire of London, which destroyed and devastated four-fifths of the city, began on 5th September 1666. 274 years and 2 days later, on 7th September 1940, the city…