"My school history lessons were focused around flat pages of facts," comments Andrew Ziminski, "but for me it was the material aspects of the past, the tangible remnants left behind that were thrilling." In his 30-year career as a stonemason, Ziminski has worked on many of Britain's greatest monuments. From Neolithic monoliths to Roman baths, from the tower of Salisbury Cathedral to the aqueducts of the Industrial Revolution, Ziminski tours the country and offers a personal, inside-out history of how the nation was built.