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.

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 ...

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 ...

While knowledge of history can explain our contemporary situation, an awareness of the myths and misuses of our history can bring a broader and more conciliatory approach to current political and ...

Cornish Short Stories A Collection of Contemporary Cornish Writing Philipa Aldous, Cathy Galvin, Anastasia Gammon, Tim Hannigan, Clare Howdle, Adrian Markle, Tim Martindale, Candy Neubert, Sarah Perry ...

Bletchley Park was – so we’re told – staffed by a majority of women, who had menial roles while a handful of pipe-smoking male boffins did the brainy codebreaking stuff. As with many urban myths, it’s ...

SS Normandie was the ultimate transatlantic ocean liner – assuredly of the 1930s, but perhaps of the entire 20th century. She had abundance – she was novel, innovative, glittering, exceptionally ...

The Deadly Game is a memoir written by Will Britten, the pseudonym of a military intelligence officer from one of the British Army’s most secretive units, the Force Research Unit (FRU), so secret that ...

1298: Alexander of Wells watches William Wallace’s army across the field at Falkirk. Hours later, he would be dead, cut down by the Scots. 1381: Hated collector of the Poll Tax, Robert Hales is ...

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 ...

Next to the modern concept that ninjutsu (arts of the ninja) is a specific form of martial art, the ninja versus samurai myth is the second most popular misconception concerning the Japanese ...