The First World War was reported from an almost exclusively male perspective, because few female war correspondents were given access to the...
There was time in 1820s London when the name of Edward Dando sent panic through the hearts of tavern and oyster shop owners. This young man,...
The job of an executioner in medieval England was detestable. Nobody invited them to their homes. They were not allowed to go to the church,...
Nearly every medieval house in Europe used to have an open hearth where a fire was kept going at all times to keep the occupants warm, and a...
In 1797, an extraordinary building went up in Shropshire that would change the skylines of our cities forever. Described as “the grandfather...
On 15 November 1635, Thomas Parr was laid to rest at a grave in old Westminster Abbey. Tradition insist that this man was born around the ye...
Anne Greene is one of the reasons why some people used to have a morbid fear of premature burial . In December 1650, Anne Green, an English ...
For the 1995 movie Richard III , director Richard Loncraine towed an old Soviet T-34 tank to the center of London and had it drive through a...
On 13 May 1912, a two-seater aircraft piloted by Edward Victor Beauchamp Fisher crashed at Brooklands, in England, killing both the pilot an...
In January 1749, an advertisement appeared on London papers for a new magical performance at the New Theater in Haymarket. An anonymous perf...
