Britain’s national parks
Slide show with photos and brief descriptions of national parks in Northumberland, the Lake District, the North York Moors, the Yorkshire Dales, the Peak District, the Norfolk Broads, the South Downs, Exmoor, Dartmoor, the New Forest, Snowdonia, Brecon Beacons, the Pembrokeshire Coast, Loch Lomond, the Trossachs, and the Cairngorms.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/travel/tripideas/do-you-agree-that-these-are-the-uks-most-beautiful-national-parks/ss-AA1NTkZ4

The most important archaeological discoveries of 2025
Photos and descriptions of a wide range of amazing discoveries on land and under water, including buildings, inscriptions, frescoes, ceramics and the oldest blue pigment and from locations across the globe.
https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/news/most-impactful-archaeological-discoveries-1234765236/ancient-egyptian-princes-tomb-discovered-at-saqqara/

The origin of English place-names
Short introduction on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98x_xMBk7zI

10 of England’s strangest place-names
Photos and brief descriptions of each location, although the etymology of some of these quirky place-names is not properly explained.
https://englandexplore.com/strange-english-place-names/?utm_source=mailerlite

Excavations at Lindisfarne in 2025
Photos, videos and info about Dig Ventures’ 10th and final crowdfunded dig at Lindisfarne.
https://digventures.com/projects/lindisfarne/timeline/?mc_cid=77808e91da&mc_eid=c31b9bb929

The Settle to Carlisle Railway
The 72-mile line, which runs from Settle in North Yorkshire to Carlisle in Cumbria, incorporates two of the country’s most challenging feats of engineering – the Ribblehead Viaduct and the Blea Moor Tunnel – and passes through some of England’s most stunning landscapes.
https://englandexplore.com/settle-to-carlisle-railway-a-nostalgic-and-beautiful-journey/?utm_source=mailerlite&utm_medium=email&omhide=true

Cannock Chase Through Time
Over the centuries, Cannock Chase in Staffordshire has played host to an Iron Age hillfort, a medieval deer park, coal mining, ironworking, glass-making, First World War camps and a military cemetery. Photographs, LiDAR images, information and a link to an interactive map can be accessed via this website:
https://historicengland.org.uk/research/current/discover-and-understand/landscapes/cannock-chase/

Top ten gardens designed by Capability Brown
Photographs and brief descriptions of the grounds designed by one of England’s most influential landscape gardeners, Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown (1716-83), who acquired his nickname because of his skill at converting formal gardens into naturalist parklands.
https://englandexplore.com/capability-brown-gardens/?utm_source=mailerlite&utm_medium=email&omhide=true#google_vignette

Hundreds of skeletons found beneath department store in Gloucester
Archaeologists called in to investigate the site of the store before it becomes the location of Gloucester University’s new city campus recently found 317 medieval and post-medieval skeletons, as well as a tobacco pipe, Roman pottery, the remnants of buildings and possibly a Roman road.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a64500206/archaeologists-found-317-skeletons-buried-under-a-department-store/?source=nl&utm_source=nl_pop&utm_medium=email&date=041725&utm_campaign=nl01_041725_HBU39402781&oo=&user_email=84ce638986bc73b191ec0774c05a547009942838093c58c9450b62a0b824de21&GID=84ce638986bc73b191ec0774c05a547009942838093c58c9450b62a0b824de21&utm_term=TEST-%20NEW%20TEST%20-%20Sending%20List%20-%20AM%20180D%20Clicks%2C%20NON%20AM%2090D%20Opens%2C%20Both%20Subbed%20Last%2030D

Eight of the UK’s most impressive private libraries
Repositories of wisdom and beautifully bound books in castles, clubs, country houses and academic institutions.
https://www.countrylife.co.uk/architecture/eight-of-the-uks-most-impressive-private-libraries-as-seen-in-the-pages-of-country-life

Dig Ventures’ best archaeology discoveries in 2024
Photos and descriptions of eight finds from a wide range of periods.
https://digventures.com/2024/12/our-best-archaeology-discoveries-2024/

Peak District landscapes
A brief introduction to changing landscapes in our neighbouring county, ranging from medieval lead mines to a Site of Special Scientific Interest in the Derbyshire Dales National Nature Reserve:
https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/news/local-news/discover-peak-district-historic-mines-9472096

Iron Age farmsteads, two Roman villas and a World War II airfield revealed at Attingham Park during an archaeological survey commissioned by the National Trust to improve nature restoration 
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/roman-shropshire-attingham-park-iron-age-english-b2573647.html

Coastal walk around the Dee estuary with downloadable guides
https://www.discoveringbritain.org/activities/wales/walks/flint.html

Unusual tours of Liverpool
Article highlighting some of the options available if you’d like a themed guided tour in one of the North West’s largest cities. The Western Approaches Command Centre, the Mersey Tunnels and Princes Road Synagogue are just three of the possibilities.
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/unusual-tours-liverpool-you-can-26990505

Peak District walk: Kettleshulme from the Swan Inn (4 miles)
Map, photographs, history, topographical information and directions
https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/magazines/cheshire/23855396.invigorating-hill-walk-cheshires-eastern-boundary/

Lost Lancashire village
https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/lancashire-village-wiped-from-map-22194160?utm_source=lancs_live_newsletter&utm_campaign=daily_newsletter2&utm_medium=email&pure360.trackingid=

From pits to flushes: the strange history of toilets
https://www.ancient-origins.net/videos/history-toilets-0019271?utm_source=jeeng&utm_medium=email&

A tour of Christmas through the ages, courtesy of Historic UK
Not entirely landscape-history-orientated, but sometimes celebrating the season just has to be done!
https://mailchi.mp/historic-uk/septembers-history-roundup-13844651?e=5e06f3541c

The world’s oldest surviving homes
Slide show of homes in Britain, Continental Europe, Asia and the Americas which remain in use hundreds of years after being built.
https://www.loveexploring.com/gallerylist/102668/the-oldest-homes-in-the-world-still-standing

Landscape Level Change (Issue 25 of the digital magazine Historic England Research)
https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/research/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=brand