Three Sisters is the name of one of the potting, scalloping and shrimp ing boats that operate out of Aberystwyth harbour. The ...

JOHN and COLLEEN DARNELL are a husband-and-wife Egyptologist team. They have presented on the Discovery Channel, History Channel, National Geographic, the Science Channel, and Smithsonian, as well as ...

The Countess of Rothes, Thomas Jones, and the Tragedy of Titanic ...

‘Breaking the Grass Ceiling’ tells the inside story of the Women’s FA, tracing its creation and organisation from inception, out of the Deal Women’s Football tournament in 1967, until it was formally ...

An Illustrated Journey through History by Time Team Artist Victor Ambrus ...

T.J. Hartwell T.J. HARTWELL comes from a family of car and motor-racing enthusiasts and his great-uncle raced at Brooklands. He has had a lifelong love of books and was managing director of The Folio ...

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 ...

The anchorite, or religious recluse, has been a part of Christian religious life since its early days. They lived solitary lives out in the desert – indeed, these solitaries became collectively known ...

The use of the olive branch as a symbol of peace in Western civilisation dates back to at least 5th century BC Greece. The ancient Greeks believed that olive branches represented plenty and drove away ...

In the thirteenth century the law and finances of each English county were under the jurisdiction of a sheriff (the word comes from ‘shire-reeve’), who was appointed by the Crown. Catherine Hanley ...

The popular TV show Outlander, now in its seventh season, is based on a series of historical novels written by Diana Gabaldon. In the series Claire Randall, a nurse from the Second Wold War, travels ...

In the medieval era, pitched battles were risky affairs; the work of years could be undone in a single day thanks to the vagaries of weather, terrain or simple bad luck. C.B. Hanley author of the ...