Learn about the influence of Greenham Common on feminist ideals and the message of empowerment passed down through generations.

Today it is difficult to imagine that the parishes of Hucclecote and Brockworth once were home to one of Britain’s major manufacturers. Gloster Aircraft Company, with its forebears H.H.Martyn & ...

Joan Rhodes would leave audiences speechless as she bent steel bars with her teeth, ripped large phone books into quarters, and lifted two men at a time. But what she did was real. Joan had a ...

‘The discoveries in this book shed new light on events surrounding the Princes in the Tower. Rather than favour Tudor propaganda or Victorian revisionism, this asks us to go back to the time and ...

Not many people know that between 1718 and 1775 over 52,000 convicts were transported from the British Isles to America, mainly to Maryland and Virginia, to be sold as slaves to the highest bidder. It ...

And other Rathlin Folk Tales from the Tommy Cecil Archive ...

Our prehistoric ancestors used flint tools every day. They were of vital importance for cutting and scraping, used for hunting, preparing food, making clothing, and building shelters, and their ...

Vikings over-wintered in England for the first time in 850. Twelve years later Harald Fairhair is born to a regional Norwegian. Young Harald battles through all of Norway becoming its first king.

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 ...

The Story of Ann Fleming and Laura, Duchess of Marlborough ...

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 ...

In the 1980s, folk singer Mike Jones wrote The Storyteller, a song inspired by the work of his friend, Taffy Thomas. Cherished by Taffy for the past thirty years, The Storyteller is reproduced here as ...