The British Isles contains the greatest concentration of ruined medieval ecclesiastical architecture in the world — a consequence of Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries between 1536 and 1541, the...
Britain's mining heritage is the most varied and most historically significant in the world — the country that invented the industrial coal mine, perfected the Cornish beam pump and created...
No country in the world built and then abandoned as much military infrastructure as Britain did in the 20th century. Two World Wars and a forty-year Cold War created an...
The British Isles contains the greatest concentration of castle ruins in the world — from Norman mottes to Edwardian coastal fortresses, from Jacobean tower houses to Gothic Revival fantasies abandoned...
The British country house is the defining architectural achievement of the 18th and 19th centuries — Palladian villas, Baroque palaces and Gothic Revival castles whose construction consumed the agricultural wealth...
The British Isles has been continuously inhabited for 10,000 years — and has been continuously abandoning settlements for almost as long. The Black Death emptied hundreds of medieval English villages...
Merthyr Tydfil is the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution's iron age — the South Wales market town that in 1806 hosted the world's largest ironworks at Cyfarthfa, where Richard Trevithick...
Derry/Londonderry is Northern Ireland's second city — a walled city on the River Foyle whose medieval walls are the most completely surviving in the British Isles and whose 20th-century history...
Galway is Ireland's western capital — the gateway city to Connemara and the Aran Islands, a medieval trading port whose extraordinary westward position on Galway Bay gives it a landscape...
Dublin is Ireland's capital and largest city — a Georgian port city on the Liffey estuary whose 18th-century urban fabric, Victorian industrial heritage, and 20th-century institutional buildings create one of...
Cork is Ireland's second city and the Republic's southern capital — a Lee valley port city whose commercial and industrial heritage spans from medieval trade to Victorian gunpowder manufacture to...
The Rhondda Valley is the most powerfully symbolic landscape of Welsh industrial history — a narrow, steep-sided valley running north from Pontypridd into the Brecon Beacons whose coal seams powered...
