Gareth E. Rees

From Stone Age lands that slipped beneath the English Channel to the rapid inundation of New Orleans, Gareth E. Rees journeys through drowned forests, shrinking wetlands, vanishing islands, and sinking towns to explore stories of flooded places from the past – and those disappearing before our eyes. Floods have been part of humanity’s story from its very beginnings. Across millennia,...

There is a Britain that exists outside of the official histories and guidebooks – places that lie on the margins, left behind. This is a land of industrial estates and electricity pylons, of motorways and ring roads, of hospitals and housing estates, of roundabouts and flyovers. Places where modern life speeds past but where people and stories nevertheless collect: ghost...