North-East History Tour

Pi, the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, is perhaps the most famous of our mathematical constants. It has fascinated ma...

Until twenty years or so ago there stood in the corner of the garden of the Rectory at Houghton-le-Spring an ancient, natural relic known...

Bernard Gilpin is one of the true icons of the history of the North-East of England . He was born in Kentmere in what we now call the L...

  [thanks to Rebecca Kennison at http://en.wikipedia.org ] The story of the Dun Cow, as depicted in the above eighteenth-century panel o...