SUVs; Carspreading; Car Bloat; big vehicles; congestion; bus delays

By Alice Millard, archivist October is Black History Month (BHM) across the UK. This year, the theme is ”Honouring Our Communities’. The archive is full of documented communities from a…

Community-funded archaeological excavations of ‘really important’ sixth-century monastery also rewrite story of Lismore

The force is seeking charges against 54 individuals and 20 companies over the 2017 tower block fire that killed 72 people.

Cree geographical knowledge at the British Library and the early cartography of the Hudson Bay watershed.

Exclusive: Collection’s 300,000 pages record lives of enslaved people in countries including the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Mauritius, South Africa and Trinidad

Objectively, Vredenburg in Utrecht is a very busy street. And yet, when I give guided tours, some people keep telling me that I have no idea what a really busy street looks like. What do they mean? Probably that, in their mind, a street cannot be busy when it does not have private cars. There aren't any here now. But it wasn’t always like this.