Canals gave Britain a single national economy, one that connected resources, factories, population centres and ports

Entering the golden age of canals

From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals

A Critic panel brought light as well as heat to the troubled question of higher education

British towns were built on rivers in more than one sense

Our new arts podcast, broadcasting from the frontline of the (high) culture war

British roads, like Britain itself, need a lot of maintenance work

Britain in the age of the automobile

Children are not secondary characters in their parents’ story

From Wind in the Willows to Wodehouse, cars captured the imagination