Monthly Archives: May 2014

John Taylor, the seventeenth-century ‘water poet’, came to Longford Castle near the end of his journey by wherry from London to Salisbury. Having struggled up the barely-navigable River Avon from Christchurch, by the time he and his companions reached Longford … Continue reading →

Maps were a great frustration for much of my PhD. There were helpful books aimed at historians who wished to use maps in their research, but that wasn’t the problem. The issue was how to create my own maps to … Continue reading →