Stunning scenery, ancient monuments, quiet backroads, ‘The Way of the Rings’ is a cycle or road journey of discovery and showcases some of our most spectacular history and landscapes. It engages with our Neolithic ancestry and traces a 670km route from the Lake District to Stonehenge, following a possible route taken by Neolithic people traveling ... <a title="Way of the Rings" class="read-more" href="https://heritagehunter.co.uk/books/way-of-the-rings/" aria-label="Read more about Way of the Rings">Read more</a>

Mary Ann Hunn is known to history as the disreputable actress mother of the politician George Canning, a footnote to his story. Many books have been written about George, perennially controversial, which either ignore his mother, or dismiss her with a few patronising words. But here, using her own 65,000-word memoir, and the remarkable 47-year correspondence ... <a title="George Canning Is My Son" class="read-more" href="https://heritagehunter.co.uk/books/george-canning-is-my-son/" aria-label="Read more about George Canning Is My Son">Read more</a>

In this landmark new biography, the leading critic Edward Chitham offers a contemporary account of the life and work of the English novelist and poet Anne Brontë (1820-49), the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. She published her two world-famed novels, initially under the pen name Acton Bell: Agnes Grey (1847), and The Tenant ... <a title="The Novelist of Wildfell Hall" class="read-more" href="https://heritagehunter.co.uk/books/the-novelist-of-wildfell-hall/" aria-label="Read more about The Novelist of Wildfell Hall">Read more</a>

This work addresses the erasure of popular women writers in the formation of Victorian studies. Mid-century critical work on the Victorian novel, which established a long-standing canon, was mainly concerned with the form of the novel rather than the literature of the Victorian period. Particularly overlooked were the popular works produced by women writers in ... <a title="Widening the Sphere" class="read-more" href="https://heritagehunter.co.uk/books/widening-the-sphere/" aria-label="Read more about Widening the Sphere">Read more</a>

Dickens had a life-long obsession with health and medicine. This landmark new book documents this more fully than ever. It is valuable, too, for studies of public health changes in the 19th-century. Bleak Health – by a medically-trained literary historian – offers an in-depth study of Dickens’s life and letters from a medical viewpoint, throwing ... <a title="Bleak Health" class="read-more" href="https://heritagehunter.co.uk/books/bleak-health/" aria-label="Read more about Bleak Health">Read more</a>

Provincial towns in Britain grew in size and importance in the eighteenth century. Ports such as Glasgow and Liverpool greatly expanded, while industrial centres such as Birmingham and Manchester flourished. Market towns outside London developed as commercial centres or as destinations offering spa treatments as in Bath, horse racing in Newmarket or naval services in ... <a title="Town – Prints and Drawings of Britain Before 1800" class="read-more" href="https://heritagehunter.co.uk/books/town-prints-and-drawings-of-britain-before-1800/" aria-label="Read more about Town – Prints and Drawings of Britain Before 1800">Read more</a>