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

A series of natural disasters in the Orient during the 14th century caused the most devastating period of death and destruction in European history. One third of the people in Europe were killed over ...

‘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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Kerry is the most westerly county of Ireland, in the far south west and it has long played an important role in Ireland’s history. Although humans arrived in Ireland some six thousand years earlier, ...

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 ...

‘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 ...

The Titanic disaster is famous not only for the two-hour-forty-minute stately submerging of the ship into the icy water and the numerous human dramas that unfolded on board, but also for the breaking ...

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 ...

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 ...