Monthly Archives: August 2015

'Summer before the Storm': John Piper and John Betjeman at Upton Cressett, 1939

I was delighted to learn from the BBC Radio 4’s Today Programme that previously unknown photographs from the John Piper archive have just been put on line after a major Heritage Lottery Fund grant to Tate Britain gallery in London had made their digitalisation possible.  Since the Shropshire: A Shell Guide was the first of the famous Shell travel […]

2015 Hudson’s Heritage Awards

The winners of the prestigious 2015 Hudson’s Heritage Awards were revealed at a lunch reception. Dan Snow, historian and broadcaster, presented the awards at Goldsmiths Hall in London with around 100 invited guests including owners and managers of the winning entries, representatives of the heritage tourist industry and the media. Established in 2011, the awards are an independently judged […]