A heartfelt plea for humility at the height of Britain’s Empire.

A kind of Aesop’s Fable in verse, about mutual respect among those with different talents.

For Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Christmas was a time to let the dead past bury its dead.

The sounds of an English country Christmas helped Tennyson in his deep mourning for an old friend.

A professional journalist and author recognises that he has met his match

A meditation on our instinctive love for the place in which we live.