About 50 miles south-west of London, within earshot of the grumbling traffic on the M3 and the tangle of Basingstoke’s ring roads and roundabouts, there is a thoroughly confusing visitor attraction.

In the cold autumn of 1643 Susan Rodway wrote to ‘my king love’, her husband Robert. A candlemaker by trade, he was away fighting for Parliament and she hadn’t heard much from him, unlike her ...

What started as a passion for underground music has grown into a movement — and now we’re celebrating our biggest milestone yet: 5 Years of Serious Sounds for Serious Heads. After setting the tone ...

The story of the clergymen, soldiers, architects, actors and apothecaries forced to rub shoulders during desperate times In the centuries following the burning down of Basing House by Oliver Cromwell ...

Do you promote an event at Basing House The Loft that's not listed? Use our free Event Promotion Centre to add/edit your events Please note: locations are plotted on this map by their postcode so may ...

Sent to defend Basing House, they endured more than two years of siege warfare, that cruellest of human experiments, brought to vivid life – and death – in Jessie Childs’s compelling retelling. The ...

BASING House ruins: Surfing the internet last week, I came across an old Terry Hunt postcard of Basing House ruins being auctioned on e-bay. Bidding started at £4 and stayed around £6 for most of the ...