Being the sort of universal hack that I am (when it comes to writing history), in the days before the...
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Saying you were once a vegetarian is like admitting you were a once better person. But here’s my guilty secret....
Two major Peakland rivers, the Dove and Manifold, begin their lives a little over a mile apart, high up on...
In 2013 I wrote an article in Country Images about collecting local books, and threatened to continue the theme with...
Travelling back in time a few millenia, Brian Spencer describes what the Peak District looked like when land that became...
The outskirts of Chesterfield on a grey and dismal morning seems an unlikely place to find la dolce vita. But...
There’s something a bit magical about the Spotted Calf café – the small but perfectly formed off-spring of the Spotted...
With an introductory splutter, the public address system announced, first in Norwegian, then in English and German, that we were...
Brian Spencer follows the life of this Denby-born man who went on to be the first Astronomer Royal and set...
People often asked me “What can I do to attract wildlife into my garden?” I ask them what they already...
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by Brian Spencer Sited comfortably above Trent Valley’s flood plain, and away from busy through roads, Melbourne has grown from...
by Brian Spencer The only time I have previously travelled through Kent was on my way to Dover for the...
We supposed that Sir Nikolaus Pevsner missed Horsley Woodhouse because he probably travelled north along the Derby to Heanor road,...
Leafy side roads lined with pleasant houses, home for many Derby commuters, fill a sheltered hollow where the Ecclesbourne meets...
