The Four Heatons’ History Tour began to take shape during the Covid lockdown of 2020. Like everyone else, my husband, Phil Page, and I were confined to our local area with not much to do for exercise but tramp the...

From the execution of Charles I in January 1649, to the restoration of his son as Charles II in May 1660, the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland experienced a series of constitutional experiments.  Ultimately, the English republic did not...

Scotland in Photographs and Scotland Revealed, my first books, were amazingly well received and although the second one came out just as Covid hit and lockdown happened, it was great to see it selling out on Amazon several times over...

The time commonly referred to as the Anarchy is one of the most violent and unstable periods of English history. Lasting almost the entirety of the reign of King Stephen, it truly was a Cousin’s War. The two main protagonists...

Of all the books I’ve written for Amberley Publishing Secret Great Yarmouth & Gorleston had the longest period of development. Not long after the idea was originally suggested a family tragedy would throw me off course and, with the huge...

Teesside’s Industrial Landscape is a photographic journey around one of England’s most visually dramatic industrial areas. Iron, steel, chemicals and heavy engineering made Teesside world famous, yet despite this, it remains a relatively unknown area compared to Tyneside, the Black...

50 Gems of Tyne and Wear. The very idea made people raise their eyebrows when I mentioned it. I even met a photographer who commented ‘Good luck with that’. This type of reaction amused me, as before Tyne and Wear...

A Dream on Wheels For as long as I can remember, cars have been my passion, and 14-year-old John would never have dreamed to have owned as many M3s as I have, let alone have written a book on the...

“Why do we need another book about Oxford?” That’s the question most people asked when I told them I was writing a short history of the city. In fact, if you look along the shelves of the local history section...

Vikings Where You Least Expect The ‘Vikings’ are a pop-culture phenomenon forever associated with frigid, windswept fjords and bleak, boggy shorelines. They are of the North, perhaps even the extreme North, beyond the periphery of Roman authors and their world...