Travel Darkly - Dark tourism destinations and how to visit them

‘The figure stopped, and at the moment a ray of moonlight fell upon the masses of driving clouds, and showed in startling prominence a dark-haired woman, dressed in the cerements of the grave. We could not see the face, for it was bent down over what...

A short walk from the Museum of London and St. Paul’s Cathedral is Postman’s Park, a peaceful patch of green in the City with a memorial dedicated to people who died whilst trying to save others’ lives.
The Watts Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice, Postman’s Park © Simon Montgomery...

Tucked away on a side road off from the weekday chaos of Fleet Street is St. Bride’s Church, a Christopher Wren design finished in 1703. Outside are a few City workers quietly eating sandwiches on benches next to the gravestones. We didn’t know about...

The bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo saw somewhere between 5,000 and 6,000 reenactors descend onto the famous battlefield to reenact the day-long fight that finally brought peace to Europe in 1815.
From 1804 one little man – Napoleon – had had the rather big aim of bringing together an empire in Europe. The British had thwarted these grand plans at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 but Napoleon was unabated, and went on galloping through Europe invading...