The Essex town with a 900 -year-old test of married couples and an unlikely prize. Read more
now playing
The Dunmow Flitch Trials
The Essex town with a 900 -year-old test of married couples and an unlikely prize.
Secrets of the HMS London shipwreck
One of the UK's most important shipwrecks lay undiscovered for 360 years near Southend.
Harwich and the U-Boat Surrender
In November 1918, more than 100 German U-Boats surrendered to the allied forces.
The Essex scientist who got man to the moon
The vital role Billericay born scientist Tom Bacon played in the Apollo 11 mission.
Ronald Blythe - A Word from Wormingford
The author's home in the north Essex village of Wormingford has an intriguing past.
Inside the Braintree Cage
How a small brick building was the answer to drunken excess in 19th century Braintree.
The Battle of Brightlingsea
Why did an Essex town become the centre of national attention for 10 months in 1995?
Saving Dovercourt’s Leading Lights
Dovercourt’s lighthouses are an iconic part of Essex’s coastline – but for how long?
