Heritage Weekends

Heritage Weekends is Helen and Neil Matthews' second book for Bradt, following their guide to the Chilterns and Thames Valley (2019), published as part of Bradt's award-winning series of slow travel guides to UK regions. Their travel writing has appeared in Wanderlust, This England and other publications. Both hold PhDs in history and Helen is a member of the Royal Historical Society. Pen & Sword has published Helen's The Legitimacy of Bastards: The Place of Illegitimate Children in Later Medieval England (2019) and Neil's Victorians and Edwardians abroad: The Beginning of the Modern Holiday (2016). Neil's research has also featured in the journal of the Leisure Studies Association (2012) and in Educating Mind, Body and Spirit: History of the University of Westminster - the legacy of Quintin Hogg and the Polytechnic, 1864-1992 (Granta, 2013). Helen is Director of Academic Services for a Russell Group university, while Neil's 25 years' experience as a marketer include four years with an association of independently owned UK historic houses, castles and gardens.

About the authors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Using this guide
A note on time periods

PART 1: ENGLAND
1 London: Beyond the British Museum
2 Twickenham: Historic House Heaven
3 St Albans: Romans & Roses
4 Windsor & Eton: Seat of Power
5 Thanet: Shells & Shelters
6 Brighton & Hove: By George
7 Isle of Wight: Victoria's Home
8 Portsmouth: Naval Tales
9 Winchester: Kings & Soldiers
10 Avebury: Pre-history Mystery
11 Bath: From Romans to the Regency
12 Dorchester: Martyrs & Madding Crowds
13 Plymouth: Docks & Drakes
14 Tintagel: Arthur & Other Legends
15 Penwith: Iron, Tin, Light
16 Stratford-Upon-Avon: The Stay's the Thing
17 Sulgrave Manor: Washington's Ancestral Home
18 Colchester: Oh, What a Circus!
19 Bury St Edmunds: Saints & Saxons
20 Norwich: All Shall Be Well .
21 Stamford: Visions of Heaven & Hell
22 Leicester: Fit for a King
23 Derby: Making Modern Britain
24 Lincoln: Steep Salvation
25 Hull:Whales, Tales & Trails
26 York: City Traders
27 Ripon: Miscreants & Monks
28 Barnard Castle: Northern Family Fortunes
29 Hadrian's Wall: Edge of Empire
30 Alnwick & Warkworth: Kings in the North
31 Mirehouse: Lake Legends
32 Liverpool: A Day in the Life & Death
33 Chester: Wall to Wall History
34 Ironbridge Gorge: The Revolution Started Here
35 Hereford: The World's Most Famous Map

PART 2: WALES
36 Tintern & the Wye Valley: Romantic Sublime
37 Cardiff : King Coal, Castles, Communities
38 St Davids: Search for a Saint
39 Aberystwyth: Biarritz of Books
40 Snowdonia: Garrisons, Gatehouses & Gardens
41 Anglesey: Mother of Wales

PART 3: SCOTLAND
42 Abbotsford & the Borders: Great Scot(t)s .
43 Gatehouse & Kirkcudbright: Castles & Creatives
44 Glasgow: City of Arts & Sciences
45 Fort William: Heroes & Betrayals
46 Inverness: Defeat & Remembrance
47 Skye: Clans, Castles, Legends & Ghosts
48 Perth: The Stone & the Slave
49 Aberdeen: Granite City
50 Orkney: The Marks of Millennia

PART 4: DEPENDENCIES
51 Isle of Man: Three-Legged Kingdom
52 Jersey: Island at War

INDEX
INDEX OF PERIODS OF HISTORY