Michael Wood is professor of public history at the University of Manchester. He has presented numerous BBC series, and is the author of several books including The Story of China (Simon & Schuster, 2021). His Twitter handle is @mayavision
“Destroy a river and you also lose its past, part of our collective memory”
THE OTHER DAY, I TOOK THE DISTRICT LINE TO Barking for an urban history walk along one of London's forgotten rivers, the Roding. This waterway flows into
