Henry Avery, also known as Henry Every, earned the name 'King of Pirates' for an audacious act of piracy against a convoy of ...

Brutal, outrageous and often hilariously exaggerated, these caricatures offer a fascinating window into the social, political ...

The last ever pitched battle to be fought on British soil took place on 16th April 1746 on Drummossie Moor, overlooking Inverness. Charles Edward Stewart, The Young Pretender The Jacobite Rising was ...

On Palm Sunday, March 29th 1461, arguably the largest and bloodiest battle on English soil took place, fought by an estimated 50,000 men continuing throughout the day and into the night. Among the ...

“We place absolute confidence in the Titanic. We believe that the boat is unsinkable.” – Philip Franklin, Vice-President of White Star Line, owners of Titanic. When she set sail across the Atlantic on ...

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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 ...

The Battle of Towton on 29th March 1461 was possibly the largest and bloodiest battle ever fought on English soil. Although the Lancastrian King Henry VI had transferred the right of succession to 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 ...

On 30th March 1856, the Crimean War was formally brought to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Paris. This formal recognition signed at the Congress of Paris came after Russia accepted a ...

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 ...