Read more in The Dark Little History of Somerset by Mike Dean. A study of the past teaches us that human nature and behaviour have not fundamentally changed over the centuries, and that history has ...

Like its’ English and Scottish counterparts, every corner of Wales has a magical figure connected to it. Whether hag like ...

On a beach near Naples in October 79 CE, more than three hundred people were standing on a beach, hoping for an evacuation.

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According to the make-it-up-as-you-go-along 12th-century historian Geoffrey of Monmouth, the River Humber was named after Humber, the King of the Huns. Learn more behind the history of Humber Crossing ...

If you’re ever walking along Corporation Street in Birmingham on a busy afternoon just stop and look around you. Listen to the noise, the chattering of voices, the distant hum of traffic, then close ...

Bracknell is one of the post war New Towns so you would be forgiven for thinking there is no history to the settlement. Bracknell’s history is unique. Author Andrew Radgick author of The Story of ...

Caroline Biggs CAROLINE BIGGS has lived all her life in Cambridge. She was an active Trustee of The Museum of Cambridge, where she founded a history festival to redress the massive imbalance between ...

Pirates and music: I imagine what comes into your head is that haunting refrain from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, or perhaps the soaring chords of an orchestral film score and the ...

Author Graham Watson details the influence and legacy of one of our most famous female authors, Charlotte Brontë.

Following seven years of investigation and intelligence gathering, including archival searches around the world, Phase One of The Missing Princes Project is complete. The evidence uncovered suggests ...

Milk stout was launched with a booklet headlined ‘ Make Stout More Nourishing ’, which claimed that the beverage gave drinkers ‘energy, stopped distension, fulness, indigestion and headache, prevented ...