Below are all the relevant This Sceptred Isle: Empire episodes relating to Australasia. This series includes details of Captain Cook's voyage of discovery and the country's period as a penal colony.

In his brilliant book A Guide To The New Ruins Of Great Britain, Owen Hatherley talks about the way that Manchester has embraced the doctrine of urban regeneration with such energy that it has "neatly ...

1 The Avenue, Spinningfields, Manchester (0161 831 0288). Meal for two, with wine and service, £110 A few weeks ago I wrote a piece explaining that, if asked in a restaurant I am reviewing how the ...

Experience counsels that the inhabitants of our great northern cities seldom warm to lectures about their shortcomings from soft southern Jessies like me. With this in mind, let us not indulge in ...