Explore the glamour of the Cannes Film Festival with iconic moments featuring stars like Johnny Depp and Muhammad Ali.

Explore the fascinating life of a female sleuth. Discover May Storey's daring investigations and breaking gender norms in ...

The Countess of Rothes, Thomas Jones, and the Tragedy of Titanic ...

Explore the fascinating life of Henrietta Moraes, a Bohemian legend who influenced the 1960s Chelsea Set and beyond.

Mark Norman author of Telling the Bees and Other Customs: The Folklore of Rural Crafts talks about the ancient bee custom of ‘telling the bees’ and its connection to royalty. When the British monarch, ...

Slavery has existed for millennia in varying forms in all parts of the world. Affecting all races, gender and age groups. It is only in recent times that it has been globally outlawed with the United ...

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 ...

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 ...

The circumstances and details of Carpathia’s sad ending were typical of the many thousands of merchant vessels sunk by enemy action in the First Word War. The wreck of Carpathia was dived for the ...

As a child growing up in a Cornish village, I had a fairy tree covered in ivy at the bottom of my garden. I left the fairies offerings of flower petals, food and petal perfumed water. My sister and I ...

As any storyteller will tell you, stories grow in the telling as they are adapted over time to suit the peoples who tell them and the places where they are told. And many of the stories we share are ...

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.” attributed to oscar wilde That honey traps remain among the most widely known and least understood category of intelligence ...