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) ...

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Cambridge University is internationally renowned for its ancient colleges. It is lauded for its educational excellence. But in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, infamy blighted its hallowed ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

Wales holds in the popular imagination a reputation of magic, mystery, and ancient ways. A land apart from its’ neighbours, Cymru has been a destination for centuries, but more importantly it is home ...

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 ...

The popular TV show Outlander, now in its seventh season, is based on a series of historical novels written by Diana Gabaldon. In the series Claire Randall, a nurse from the Second Wold War, travels ...

Anyone with only passing knowledge of Notting Hill will probably have formed their views based on events like the annual Notting Hill Carnival, the eponymous nineties romcom starring Hugh Grant and ...