19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination

Why towns were a magnet for aspirational Englishmen

In the battle between abstract globalisation and rooted identity, the human spirit itself is at stake

In the eighteenth century London was booming, but many towns weren’t doing so well

Russian writers loved a pouting, picturesquely pained protagonist

The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries

In the 17th century, disease drove social and urban change in England

During the English Civil War, towns were fiercely divided

The Reformation was a transformative moment in English urban history

The medieval English town was subject to fire, flood, plague — and revolution