The growth of the BBC Television and ITV after the Second World War encouraged more folk to want TV sets. The Coronation of ...

Queen Elizabeth I set all the trends at court - including her sugar-rotted teeth. Famous for her love of sugar and all things ...

Dating from the Georgian era, gentlemen's clubs were reserved exclusively for the aristocracy and the elite, to meet, drink, ...

The solitary moors of Bodmin have an ethereal, timeless quality which makes it fitting that they host many fascinating ...

Admiral Lord Nelson's decisive victory at the Battle of Trafalgar is well known. What is less well known is that without the powder monkeys, the brave young boys who ferried the gunpowder to the guns, ...

Dating back to the fifteenth century, Plough Monday marked the beginning of the English agricultural year just as the celebrations of the Twelve Days of Christmas came to a conclusion. Every year, ...

May 10th and 11th May from 10am to 5pm at Melton Mowbray Park Close Park & Town Centre, Play Close Park, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire Join us this weekend as we pay tribute to VE Day 80. Melton ...

When philanthropist Henry Mayhew visited the Peek Frean biscuit factory in Bermondsey in 1865, he marvelled at the automation of biscuit production and “…how it can be possible to fabricate, out of a ...

Sat 25 January 2025 – Sun 2 February 2025 at Weald and Downland Living Museum, Town Lane, Singleton, Chichester West Sussex PO18 0EU To showcase how 15th century people would have lived, worked and ...