The 2017 film 'Victoria and Abdul' highlights the real-life relationship between Queen Victoria and her Indian Muslim servant ...

A ruthless military leader and company administrator, Robert Clive, also known as Clive of India played a pivotal role in ...

Scroll down the page to browse through our selection of unusual and quirky self catering holiday cottages to rent. From lighthouses by the sea to windmills, railway cottages and oast houses, our ...

Abderdeen Cathedral Scottish Episcopal Church The Episcopal Cathedral Church of St Andrew opened in 1817 as St Andrew's Chapel and was raised to Cathedral status in 1914. Designed by local architect ...

We have compiled an alphabetical listing of the more ‘interesting’ destinations that you may wish to visit within the UK. The more sinister sites are denoted with a reddish shade, whilst those ...

Uniting the kingdoms of Scotland and England had been proposed for a hundred years before it actually happened in 1707. Suspicion and mistrust between the two countries had prevented the union ...

From the World Heritage Site of Hadrian’s Wall to the lesser known villas and amphitheatres that once dotted the land, Britain has a surprisingly large amount of Roman ruins that can still be visited ...

The Prime Minister is the political leader of the United Kingdom and is the head of the Government. There were 15 Prime Ministers during the 70 year reign of Queen Elizabeth II, some more than once.

Cardiff made my father. Thomas Gareth Thomas was born in the city on 13 July 1936 at 154 Inverness Place, Roath. Gareth Thomas is, of course, a remarkably common name in Wales. Over the years, his ...

On Tuesday 29th October 1929 the Wall Street Crash caused a cataclysmic chain of events which affected nearly every country across the globe. The Great Depression, also known as ‘The Slump’ ...

The term ‘hangover’ is universally understood to mean the disproportionate suffering that comes after a night of over-indulgence. But where does the term actually come from? One possible explanation ...

So what does this graph tell us? Here are a few interesting insights we’ve managed to extract: With coastal patrol vessels excluded, the number of significant ships in the Royal Navy has declined by ...