Tracey Norman TRACEY NORMAN is an historian and author with a particular interest in witchcraft cases. She is the author of the acclaimed play WITCH, using actual witch trial documents to tell the ...

Geoff Holder GEOFF HOLDER is a full-time writer covering such diverse subjects as walking, natural history, archaeology, music and art. He is the author of a number of titles, including The Guide to ...

Catherine Lorigan CATHERINE LORIGAN has a BA (Hons) in Medieval and Modern History, an MSt in English Local History, a PhD in Cornish Studies, an MA in Music and a Diploma in Vernacular Architecture ...

On 9 September 2015, Queen Elizabeth II, having previously surpassed her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria, in 2007, to become the longest-lived British monarch, became the longest-reigning ...

As grand sounding as the title Duke of Clarence is, it is perhaps forever tainted by two previous incumbents. As many Shakespeare scholar’s will remember, the third Duke of Clarence (and last creation ...

Source There is little unanimity about the source of the outbreak. Some believe that the flu originated in the US when a feverish soldier, Albert Gitchell, reported to the infirmary at training ...

The Battle of the Aisne was fought in September 1914. 13,541 British soldiers lost their lives in futile attempts to break through the German lines of shallow trenches dug along the Chemin des Dames ...

Over the course of the first three days of official evacuation 1.5 million people were moved. In England alone 673,000 unaccompanied schoolchildren, 406,000 mothers and young children and 3,000 ...

The Normandie – carrying 1,972 passengers (848 in first class, 670 in tourist and 454 in third) – was certainly the most extravagantly decorated liner of her day, perhaps of all time. The main dining ...

In 1936 and 1937, the Zeppelin Hindenburg was the quickest way to travel between the United States and Europe. LZ-129 Hindenburg dazzled the world as the latest in a series of advances in transoceanic ...

It was four to five degrees below zero in Berlin’s city centre on the evening of 27 February 1933; an icy easterly wind made it seem even colder. In every other way, however, this appeared to be an ...

The Olympics ran from 27 April to 31 October 1908, the longest ever, and involved over 2,000 competitors from a record 22 nations – more than three times the number who competed at St. Louis. The 1908 ...