Walking Through History

Bronte Country. Tony's walk tells the life story of the remarkable Bronte family and explores how the moors inspired their most famous novels.

Victoria & Albert's Highland Fling. Tony walks across the Cairngorms to Balmoral, in the footsteps of Victoria and Albert who discovered and promoted the Scottish Highlands, enthusiastically adopting the kilt, the Highland Games, hunting and fishing.

The Norman Conquest of Pembrokeshire. Tony traces the Norman conquest of this corner of Wales which still feels more English than the rest of the country, nearly 1000 years later.

Nazi Occupation: The Channel Islands. For five years, the Channel Islands were occupied by the Germans, the only part of the British Isles to be so.

King John's Ruin: The Peak District. Nowhere is fact and fiction so entwined than in the stories of King John, Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham. Yet out of this legendary time came Magna Carta, a foundation stone of modern democracy.

England's Last Battle - West Country. In 1685, a rebel army landed at the pretty Dorset port of Lyme Regis and swept up through Somerset, pausing at Taunton to declare its leader, Duke of Monmouth, the rightful king.