Initially all was well and I loved having a cat in my life, but then – shock, horror – I started developing terrible ...

Explore the life of the forgotten cartographer whose work caught the attention of King Charles II and reshaped history.

Historic photos of the Cheshire Blitz reveal the impact of WWII bombing raids, showing bomb damage across towns in the county ...

John Simpson, BBC World Affairs Editor, ‘Once again, Evans has rescued a fascinating piece of newspaper history. He presents a disturbing portrait of a Fleet Street journalist who, in getting close to ...

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 ...

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 ...

As any storyteller will tell you, stories grow in the telling as they are adapted over time to suit the peoples who tell them and the places where they are told. And many of the stories we share are ...

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 ...

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.” attributed to oscar wilde That honey traps remain among the most widely known and least understood category of intelligence ...

When the first Irish railway was opened in 1834, it did not go the whole way from Dublin (Westland Row) to Kingstown (Dún Laoghaire), but only to Salthill (now Salthill and Monkstown). It was ...

Queen’s Proctor Mr Solly-Flood heard ‘so extraordinary a picture’ of the Mary Celeste incident by the testimonies of Deveau, Wright, Lund, Anderson and Johnson, up to 22 December 1872, that he was ...