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How do you capture a kingfisher?

There are many elusive creatures that I long to [...]
Walkin’ down the line

It will only have escaped your notice if you have [...]
British hare ways

It was a beautiful mid-May morning, clear with a [...]
How do you become a park ranger?

“How do you become a ranger?” – It is a [...]
The Nene is part of who we are

The writer Richard Mabey suggests that our sense [...]

Bill Urquhart – the brewer who started a micro revolution

Alaric Neville of the modern Phipps brewery tells the story of the last [...]
Leather at Lunchtime free lecture series

The National Leather Collection is hosting a series of free lunchtime [...]
Pictures from Remembrance Sunday in Northampton

Photographer Dave Ikin captured these scenes at the All Saints Remembrance [...]
Christmas at the Charles Rennie Mackintosh House

It’s Christmas and, once again, 78 Derngate will be decorated in the [...]
Zeppelin bombing raid on Northampton station was hushed up

Kate Wills reveals the little known story of a First World War air raid on [...]
The story of the rise of the Richardson Group

Colin Richardson looks back at the changing history of one of the most [...]
Northampton remembers the Holocaust

The Errol Flynn Cinema is screening The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas to mark [...]
American air hero who kept returning to Northampton

It’s Facebook time, folks! Like many others, writes Eric Whitehouse, I [...]
We’re a little bit Saxon and a little bit Viking

Historian Mike Ingram delves into Northampton’s distant past and [...]
Heritage Day takes a journey into Northampton’s past

Karin Johnstone took advantage of Heritage Open Day to discover more about [...]
Fotheringhay – another missing Northamptonshire castle

Mike Ingram reveals the history of Fotheringhay Castle, a forgotten jewel [...]
The Empire shuts its mouth

Writer Tré Ventour asks Does Britain Really Have Historical Amnesia? as [...]
The Delapre Abbey story

Mike Ingram delivers an epic account of the history of Delapre [...]
The amazing adventures of Walter Tull

Tre Ventour examines the life and times of Water Tull… Today, there [...]
What is the enduring appeal of Stoke Bruerne at War?

Roger Hasdell, Mick Butler, and Lynda Payton (Friends of The Canal Museum) [...]

Bill’s may be a chain but a good shopping hideout

We usually give priority on our eating out experiences in NQ to [...]
Tap and Kitchen’s an odd modern mixture

WE needed an excuse to move further afield from the county town to [...]
Mother lovin’ noodles

Let me show you what mountain bikers eat, I said to my daughter as we [...]
Delapre’s Orangery has improved 18-months on . . . but still not for dogs

Back in August 2017 we wrote about the huge redevelopment that had been [...]
Elwes lunch was a traditional treat

The search for Penda’s perfect Sunday lunch has become a bit of a quest [...]
They have changed the menu at Buddies!

Towards the end of the last century I arrived in Northampton as a [...]
Review: Posh picky bits at the Bread and Pullet

THERE’S a signature dish enjoyed at Casa Penda known as ‘Picky [...]

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