Gidding News Today

From calfskin to cut-and-paste, a tribute to the graft and craft that goes into books

For some readers this book will have the charm of the Antiques Roadshow. Adam Smyth, professor of English Literature and the History of the Book at Balliol College, Oxford, presents with caressing attention to technical detail an array of illustrious book people. They may be unfamiliar names to those who don’t know a colophon from

Little Gidding was a religious community, founded by a man named Nicholas Ferrar.

Robert Whitcomb's weekly examination of everything that is important. Only Whitcomb offers such a collection of insights on the global and local issues that matter.

Our annual festival of self-improvement is not such a new idea, says Dr Louisa McKenzie

This year we have celebrated the community, shared your stories, and kept you up to date every second of the way.

A new plan to try and protect more small schools from being shut down has been released by Cambridgeshire County Council.

Newtown was the big winner of the round.

The only other political censure in the history of Congress—that of abolitionist Joshua Giddings in 1842—was bound up with the struggle against slavery that culminated in the Civil War.

A new warden has been appointed to a religious community in Bridport