In war, silence is a weapon. While armies clashed in Normandy, at Stalingrad and across the Pacific, another struggle ...

‘You shan’t see him! You shan’t see him! I promised his mother! Go away!’ Lines from the British movie The Face at the Window (1939), directed by George King and starring Tod Slaughter. Folk Horror ...

Captain Robert Scott’s fate on the tragic expedition to the South Pole in 1912 was sealed by an audacious gamble taken by his bitter rival, the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. A new study shows ...

Bullets, Bullion and Betrayal: John Palmer's True Story (Now the Subject of a Major BBC Drama) ...

The Rise and Fall of the LSD Network That Turned On the World ...

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The Story of Canterbury offers a fresh perspective on the city and its iconic cathedral. A highlight is a guided tour led by John Doyle MBE, the cathedral’s longest-serving guide and president of the ...

Slavery has existed for millennia in varying forms in all parts of the world. Affecting all races, gender and age groups. It is only in recent times that it has been globally outlawed with the United ...

Milk stout was first produced by the Mackeson brewery in Hythe, Kent in 1909 and was a runaway success. Part of its popularity was undoubtedly due to the way in which it was advertised. This was not ...

During the Second World War, the Germans considered the Royal Artillery to be the most professional arm of the British Army: British gunners were accurate, effective and efficient, and provided fire ...

‘A sense of delight permeates Gyles Brandreth’s John Gielgud: An Actor’s Life … Brandreth combines neat reportage, deft evocation and lovely tales about a man he knew and relished.’ – The Times ‘A ...

Not many people know that between 1718 and 1775 over 52,000 convicts were transported from the British Isles to America, mainly to Maryland and Virginia, to be sold as slaves to the highest bidder. It ...