Sue Wilkes

The August issue of Towpath Talk has a competition to win a free copy of my book Tracing Your Canal Ancestors - you can enter online her...

I’m not normally a fan of huge song-and-dance numbers, but I really enjoyed watching Lancashire-born Danny Boyle’s epic tribute in the Oly...

I am thrilled to announce that I have just signed a new contract with Pen and Sword !  My new book will be a social history of Jane Auste...

Highwaymen or ‘knights of the road’ flourished during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Some of England’s most infamous highwaymen...

I was very interested to see Stuart Maconie’s exploration of Furness last night: one of the regional history programmes for the BBC’s Gre...

There’s great news for Cheshire history fans – funding to restore Northwich’s famous Lion Saltworks at Marston has been agreed at last ....

I have passed Tintern Abbey many times while driving down the Wye Valley, but haven’t had a chance to explore this picturesque site unti...