Profile: Julie Ann Godson

Secret love affairs, murder, blackmail, poisoning and extortion: most of us enjoy a good scandal. And it’s even more fun when it involves our so-called ‘betters’. This book tells twenty stories of Oxfordshire toffs in trouble, from Tudor times up to the m....

First published in 1859, this enchanting novel is author Thomas Hughes’ way of recording the very last “Pastime”, the festival accompanying the 1857 ceremony of Scouring the Uffington White Horse in Oxfordshire. As well as giving a full account of the his....

At dusk on a snowy March evening in 1766 a tired young couple made out the welcoming lights burning in the windows of the creaky old Berkshire manor house that was to be their home. He was William Flower, Viscount Ashbrook, she was Betty Ridge, daughter o....