Memorials of the Vendée Wars

If you’re travelling to the Vendée and want to touch its identity, you need to unlock its dark history. A perfect way of doing so is by visiting these memorials to the bloody conflict.

Best churches in South Devon and Dartmoor

Our founder Hilary Bradt and Janice Booth, authors of Slow Travel: South Devon and Dartmoor, discuss their favourite churches from the region.

Best British churches

Some people go to church, others go to churches.

Five reasons to visit Suffolk

Abundant in picturesque towns, magnificent country walks and a beautiful coastline, Suffolk has plenty of areas to explore.

A walk in Constable Country

Laurence Mitchell retraces John Constable’s steps on a walk through the Stour Valley.

Pargeting

This art of decorative plastering is a regular feature of buildings across Suffolk.

Impenetrable

Dom Tulett travelled to Uganda as part of his prize for winning the 2016 Bradt New Travel Writer of the Year award. This is Dom’s account of that unforgettable trip.

Walking on Minchinhampton Common

There are walks that get you from A to B, hikes that form a stretch of long-distance trail and then there are easy-going walks for no purpose other than to lift the soul. A walk on Minchinhampton Common does just that.

A Slow day in York

‘The history of York is the history of England’; unearth the past with a slow tour of this medieval city.

My Daughter’s Laugh

Winner of Bradt’s New Travel Writer of the Year competition 2016, tells the story of his first trip away from his daughter.

A Slow day in Exeter

As cities go, Exeter is perfect for Slow travel. 

Lewis Carroll & Alice in Wonderland

There are many places and features around Oxford that crop up in Lewis Carroll’s books.

The first English aeronaut

James Sadler was a pioneer of flight in Britain.

The University of Oxford

Do you want to pay Oxford’s famous colleges a visit?

A short history of bathing in Bath

Which royal visitors put Bath’s bathing on the map?