The term 'Fertile Crescent' refers to a geographical area in the Near East which arcs between the Jordan Valley of the Levant and the Euphrates and Tigris estuary. It also reaches up into southern and ...

Mount Hawke Wesleyan Methodist Chapel lies in the centre of the village, northwards from the parish church (see links). It sits on the right-hand side of the Fore Street junction, as the road curves ...

Higher Bal Methodist Church sits next door to the site of the former first and second Wesleyan Methodist chapels (see 'related links'), the second of which was superseded by this building. The site on ...

One of those castles which is not really a castle, the story behind Whitstable Castle (or Tankerton Towers as it has also been known) began in the fifteenth century. The mineral alum was in high need ...

Returning to St Agnes and Vicarage Road from the cemetery, St Agnes Old Goodfellows Hall sits on the left. Built in 1881 as the Oddfellow's Hall it is also recognised in records as a place of worship, ...

Deal Castle was built between 1539-1540 on the orders of Henry VIII. It was one of a series of coastal fortifications which also included Walmer Castle and Sandown Castle (see 'related links', below).

It was the Romans who coined the name 'Gaul' to describe the Celtic tribes of what is now France and Belgium, quite possibly based on an original form of the word 'Celt' itself (see feature link).

The independent kingdom of Laos emerged out of preceding French Laos and Japanese Occupation. During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries AD the Thai established the principality of Muong Swa (now ...

This map of Britain concentrates on British territories and kingdoms which were established during the fourth and fifth centuries, as the Saxons and Angles began their settlement of the east coast. It ...

The Levant in the period between about 10,000-3000 BC was the centre of the Neolithic Farmer revolution in the Near East. The process of domesticating wild crops took at least three millennia on its ...