Not many people know about Blackdown Rings – unless you’re local to the Modbury area, it would probably never occur to you to seek out this sequestered field near the hamlet of Hazelwood. Its hillocks ...

Hugh Mercer (1725-1777), a son of Pitsligo kirk minister William Mercer, of Rosehearty, was one of several Highlander Jacobites to leave behind “his own, his native land” in the eighteenth century ...

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After they invaded Britain in AD43, the Romans quickly established control over southern England. The conquest of the ‘wild barbarians’ in the North however was not going to be so easy. In the AD70’s ...

The French also had plans to send an army to unite with Bavarian forces and then march down the Danube to capture Vienna. In an attempt to pre-empt this, the British under the command of John ...

At the south western tip of Millwall, near Canary Wharf in the East End of London, lie the remains of the SS Great Eastern’s launch ramp. Designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the SS Great Eastern was ...

Some believe that certain stones can cure illnesses – for example, the 12 o’clock Stone near Nancledra in Cornwall can, it is said, cure children of rickets as long as they are not illegitimate or the ...

Since 1762 the skyline of Kew in West London has been dominated by a rather curious building: a gigantic Chinese Pagoda. The building soars 164ft (50 metres) into the west London sky and was the ...

This morning my choice of clothes was a rather a haphazard affair. Having planned to spend the day writing, I knew I wasn’t in need of anything spectacular, but even so, the leggings, slippers and ...

Many inventions throughout history have shaped the modern world in which we live. For many of us, our lifestyle and expectations have been shaped by processes, discoveries and accidents which happened ...

Located rather surreptitiously at the south-east corner of Trafalgar Square is a rather peculiar and often overlooked world record holder; Britain’s Smallest Police Station. Apparently this tiny box ...