Like its’ English and Scottish counterparts, every corner of Wales has a magical figure connected to it. Whether hag like ...

On a beach near Naples in October 79 CE, more than three hundred people were standing on a beach, hoping for an evacuation.

Read more in The Dark Little History of Somerset by Mike Dean. A study of the past teaches us that human nature and behaviour have not fundamentally changed over the centuries, and that history has ...

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 story of a ...

Walk down any British high street and you are sure to see a pub. The local. Nearly every British city, town or village has one. You can also be sure that, no matter the age of the building, the name ...

Slavery has existed for millennia in varying forms in all parts of the world. Here is a brief history of the major slave trades.

‘A tale of kings and conquests and high-sea adventures … A must-read for those interested in the history of spices.’ – Shrabani Basu, author of Victoria and Abdul and Curry: The Biography of the ...

While knowledge of history can explain our contemporary situation, an awareness of the myths and misuses of our history can bring a broader and more conciliatory approach to current political and ...

SS Normandie was the ultimate transatlantic ocean liner – assuredly of the 1930s, but perhaps of the entire 20th century. She had abundance – she was novel, innovative, glittering, exceptionally ...

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Coventry, home of the cycle industry, was also to become the birthplace of the motor industry when the Daimler Company became the first in Britain to mass produce cars in the late 1890s. Spearheaded ...

In Hitler’s Foreign Executioners, Heinrich Himmler’s secret master plan for Europe is revealed: an SS empire that would have no place for either the Nazi Party or Adolf Hitler. His astonishingly ...