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 ...

According to the make-it-up-as-you-go-along 12th-century historian Geoffrey of Monmouth, the River Humber was named after Humber, the King of the Huns. Learn more behind the history of Humber Crossing ...

For decades now the public has been told that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance and that antidepressants work by targeting this mechanism. Millions of people have decided to take ...

If you’re ever walking along Corporation Street in Birmingham on a busy afternoon just stop and look around you. Listen to the noise, the chattering of voices, the distant hum of traffic, then close ...

ANNA MARIA HELLBERG MOBERG is a storyteller, writer and journalist who performs in the UK and Sweden. She has had over 500 articles published and has worked on 25-30 books as sole author, co-author or ...

‘A searing account of one man's struggle for survival, as a man and as a Pole. A deeply personal exploration of one facet of the Polish experience, the author conjures up the horrors of Siberian ...

CAROLINE BIGGS has lived all her life in Cambridge. She was an active Trustee of The Museum of Cambridge, where she founded a history festival to redress the massive imbalance between the historical ...

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On 11 May 1944 – just four weeks before D-Day – 67 American heavy bombers dropped 168 tons of bombs on the sunlit French town of Épinal on the Moselle river. Unbeknownst to the aircrew of the ‘Mighty ...

Following seven years of investigation and intelligence gathering, including archival searches around the world, Phase One of The Missing Princes Project is complete. The evidence uncovered suggests ...

Queen’s Proctor Mr Solly-Flood heard ‘so extraordinary a picture’ of the Mary Celeste incident by the testimonies of Deveau, Wright, Lund, Anderson and Johnson, up to 22 December 1872, that he was ...

It is now 100 years since Great Britain’s railways were drawn together into four companies. They were known as the ‘Big Four’, but why? In 1804 Richard Trevithick pioneered steam traction that was ...