Using 'A History of English Places'

Take a walk around the historic sites of Kenilworth in Warwickshire with the aid of the Victoria County History’s ‘A History of English Places’ App.

Take a walk around the historic sites of Colchester in Essex with the aid of the Victoria County History’s ‘A History of English Places’ App.

Join Joe Chick as he takes to the streets of Coventry with the ‘History of England’s Places’ App to find the city that was there before the bombs.

Dr Joe Chick arms himself with ‘A History of English Places’, the App for mobile devices developed by the Victoria County History (VCH) with Aimer Media. In this blog, he heads to Derbyshire, and the spa town of Buxton.

In this blog Joe Chick explores a city on the boundaries of the English Midlands and the south west, a port that dominated trade with France, Ireland and Wales throughout the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods, but whose more recent histories are often defined in relation to the legacies of the Atlantic slave trade.

Dr Joe Chick invites us to join him in Reading to explore the medieval monastic influences still visible in the Berkshire town.

This is the last in Joe Chick's series of historic town walks using the Victoria County History’s app for mobile devices. ‘A History of English Places’ brings the VCH’s histories together with first edition Ordnance Survey mapping across England.