Guidance on planning and designing walking, wheeling and cycling routes and facilities in rural areas.

The festival of fiftieth anniversaries for cycle campaigning in London has pedalled off in style with a ten minute video from ICAG - Islington Cycle Action Group (now Cycle Islington), one of the founding groups of London Cycling Campaign. This has plenty of footage from the time of cycling in the metropolis, plus progress in the borough to the present day.

This Trustees’ Week takes place in a discouraging world out there.   There are horrible wars in Sudan and Ukraine, deaths of tens of thousands of civilians in Gaza, dreadful infringements of women’s r...

Wow, that old Friends of the Earth logo! Press release from 1975 about national FoE cycling event, plus new report and guide from local Greenwich group. Great to see a mention of the ‘tetra c…

As the 8th UN Global Road Safety Week kicks off around the world under the theme “Make walking and cycling safe,” WHO has launched a new toolkit to help governments promote active mobility – by…

A podcast podcast dedicated to all things cycling, walking and wheeling, in the UK and beyond.

Cycling for transport is often seen as an urban solution, but it can solve some of our rural transport issues too. So, what are some of the issues in our rural places? Motoring has subsumed the roa…

Ancestry's recent addition of UK Heraldic Card Index 1150-1850 records {1} almost passed me by, but why not see if there is an entry for second cousin nine times removed John Howse/Howes, who attained high rank in Norfolk (early 1700s)? A very quick search did indeed find an entry, described as part of "Modern Armory Cards from Various Sources" - so time to download both sides of the card for later use.

The ‘Blackfriars SE1 in the 1970s‘ exhibition has moved back to the Castle Leisure Centre (2 St Gabriel Walk, SE1 6FG) for a second showing, and will be available to view there into the new year. A…

Bike parking is evolving around the evolution of electric bikes and micromobility, but also to promote safer buildings.

New guidance will help to design activity into our neighbourhoods and reduce congestion on the roads during school run times.