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 ...

Initially many in Britain hoped that their country might avoid becoming enmeshed in the war threatening Europe, but this view changed dramatically as it learnt of the atrocities which had been ...

Preparing for war Preparations for an air bombardment of Britain had been made before war began in the expectation that ‘total war’ would target civilians as well as those armed to fight. Everyone ...

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 ...