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Author Dermot Turing answers questions about the forgotten Second World War codebreaking women of Bletchley Park.
Pixies are mischievous and marvellous, and can help or hinder us, their human neighbours. They have have been loved and revered, avoided and feared and have become recognisable figures in folklore and ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
The Welsh Utopia Amser maith yn ôl / A long time ago. The shallow sea in Cardigan Bay, from Pen Llŷn in the north to Ceredigion in the west, was once a mix of forests, lakes, rivers, swamps and ...
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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 ...
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 ...
Author Christopher Othen talks us through the gangsters, gun wars and exploits of the Polish Mafia and how it relates to a boxing match ...
Bracknell is one of the post war New Towns so you would be forgiven for thinking there is no history to the settlement. Bracknell’s history is unique. Author Andrew Radgick author of The Story of ...