Welcome to the Heritage Weekends blog.
Britain is renowned for the depth and richness of its heritage. We’ve been exploring that heritage across the length and breadth of England, Scotland and Wales, as well as a couple of UK dependencies. This blog celebrates Britain’s heritage, with additional material and reflections from our travels.
Latest Posts
Guide of the Year finalist
We were delighted to hear that Heritage Weekends is a finalist in the Travel Media Awards 2023. We’re competing with four other finalists for the title Guide of the Year. Nominated guides in this category were published as an app, a book or online between 1 May 2022 and 30 April 2023 and contain a… Continue reading Guide of the Year finalist
From Lunaticks to scientific greatness
The debate within the UK about how far privilege will get you with education and a career may never have been more polarised than now. Whichever way you lean in that argument, it’s hard to argue that Charles Darwin – perhaps the most influential of all Victorians – benefitted from privilege for much of his… Continue reading From Lunaticks to scientific greatness
Bizzarechitecture: the future?
‘Modesty has never been an architectural virtue,’ wrote Charles Jencks (1939-2019), one of many asides in the slim booklet The Cosmic House, which describes the building of that name a few minutes from Holland Park tube station in London. The House is ‘a built manifesto for Post-Modernism… an attempt to create a symbolic architecture for… Continue reading Bizzarechitecture: the future?
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