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 ...

Stories are important, folk tales echo the hopes and dreams of generations long lost in the mists of time. They will echo on, into the future, for as long as people will fall in love. The tragic story ...

The discovery team leaders (from left to right): Jean-Louis Michel of the French National Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER) (standing in a dark sweater), Jean Jerry (IFREMER) ...

Wales holds in the popular imagination a reputation of magic, mystery, and ancient ways. A land apart from its’ neighbours, Cymru has been a destination for centuries, but more importantly it is home ...

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 ...

The Titanic disaster is famous not only for the two-hour-forty-minute stately submerging of the ship into the icy water and the numerous human dramas that unfolded on board, but also for the breaking ...

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 ...

When fishing boats were numerous, Scotland was a wonderful place to see them. Even now, it’s still possible to catch a hint of what used to be. Peter Drummond has roamed the coastlines and harbours of ...

In November 1999 the Polish boxer Andrzej Gołota fought Michael Grant in Atlantic City before an audience of fight fans, celebrities, and expat Poles. In the audience was Donald Trump, then a real ...

Back then, the word was a term used, not always positively, for those who lived unconventional lives. One of the most famous was Isabel Rawsthorne: artist, spy, pornographer, model and muse for some ...

Brimming with lies, hagiography and exaggeration! Elizabeth Gaskell’s sensational 1857 biography of her friend Charlotte Brontë continues to divide historians, critics and Brontë fans over 160 years ...