“History is not just stuff that happens by accident, we are the products of the history that our ancestors chose, if we are White. If we are Black we are products of the history our ancestors most likely didn’t...
My first encounter with the author of Richard III and the Battle of Bosworth now seems like it took place in another era of history.
Many years ago I was news editor of the Northampton Chronicle & Echo and I...
If you've been enjoying the swords and sieges in the hit TV series Game of Thrones then don't miss a chance for an insight into a real medieval stronghold.
Rockingham Castle is offering a special Father's Day experience starting with...
Historian Mike Ingram delves into Northampton's distant past and finds it once again at the centre of history-making events
Throughout its early history, what would eventually be known as Northamptonshire became a centre for royal administration and home to Kings...
Mike Ingram takes us step by step through the trial that shook the nation when the church took on the state at Northampton Castle
Northampton has always been a place of Kings and Queens. It was in the town that...
Many of Northampton's lost landmark buildings have been recreated in amazing detail by a model railway enthusiast.
(Pictures by Dave Ikin)
The old Victorian Emporium arcade replaced by the Grosvenor Centre and many other scenes from the town centre, such as...
Historian Mike Ingram is offering guided tours of the historic heart of Northampton.
In medieval times the town was an important trade centre and a seat of government where monarchs took many of the decisions that form the waypoints of...
Shirley Jones' uniquely forensic reflections on the Northamptonshire literary festival which gives us grandeur relaxed...
How can anybody fit into this? A thought commonly held of living in small spaces, but which occurred to me when visiting Althorp for its...
Northampton bluesman Eric Whitehouse shares his memories of seaside holidays and what a summer in Skegvegas taught him about showbusiness...
Recently, my lovely Annie and I took a nostalgic limp down Memory Lane to revisit, for a few days, a...
Mike Ingram tells how the lawlessness of medieval Northamptonshire led to it becoming a centre for experiments in fighting crime...
Today, headlines like “Knife crime hits record high in England and Wales as violence soars” emblazon newspapers across Britain. But...
