Discover the pivotal moments in the history of North East England, from Celtic struggles to the rise of Christianity in ...

At this point, when Harald had made real headway, he was invited to Christmas at Tofte farm. At the feast on Christmas Eve, a ...

How Cambridge University Locked Up Women in its Private Prison ...

On 21 December 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from Frankfurt to Detroit was destroyed by a bomb, killing all 243 passengers and sixteen crew. Large sections of the aircraft, bodies and personal effects ...

Joan Rhodes would leave audiences speechless as she bent steel bars with her teeth, ripped large phone books into quarters, and lifted two men at a time. But what she did was real. Joan had a ...

When the harrowing Great War diaries of one of Britain’s first black soldiers were unearthed in a dusty Scottish attic nearly 100 years after they were written, they posed a bit of a mystery. The ...

Only six men can lay claim to wearing the famous Savile Row tuxedo of James Bond; more people have stepped on the moon. Yet, hundreds more came within an inch of winning the coveted 007 role – the ...

In AD 400 Roman rule in Britain was collapsing as the thinly stretched empire was besieged on all sides. In “The Last Legionary“, Paul Elliot explores all aspects of Late Roman military life, from ...

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 majority of Nottinghamshire’s women remain unknown to history but they were often far from voiceless. The region’s female lacemakers and textile workers played an essential role in the ...

Yvonne Singh details the lives and legacies of five Black British journalists who should be as well known as George Orwell.

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