We investigate whether William Murdoch, inventor of gas lighting, is Britain's most underrated mechanical engineer, then visit the places he lived and worked
Sir Christopher Wren is widely believed to be Britain's greatest architect. We investigate these claims then take a tour around the places he lived and worked.
Thomas Telford vies with Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the soubriquet of Britain's Greatest Civil Engineer. We investigate his bona fides, then tour the places he lived and worked.
After a 40 year search, we believe that we have found the real battlefield some three miles northeast of the traditional location. Here we present how we worked it out and how experts might have been misled for nearly a thousand years.
Charles Darwin is widely regarded as Britain's greatest scientist. A few dissenters accuse him of being a charlatan and fraudster. We investigate their evidence, then conduct a Darwin pilgrimage of the places he lived and worked.
On the 200th anniversary of her birth, we investigate whether Ada Lovelace is, as usually claimed, the world's first computer programmer, then tour the places she lived and worked
On the 125th anniversary of his birth, we investigate whether Tolkien is Britain's most momentous novelist, then conduct a Tolkien pilgrimage around Britain.