Author Dermot Turing answers questions about the forgotten Second World War codebreaking women of Bletchley Park.

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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.

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 ...

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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 ...

RORY MACLELLAN is a historian specialising in the Knights Hospitaller and the crusades. He holds a PhD in Medieval History from the University of St Andrews, has published on medieval Britain and the ...

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 ...

Robert Ross ROBERT ROSS is the leading authority on the history of British comedy. His sixteen books include The Carry On Companion, and official BBC celebrations of Fawlty Towers, Last of the Summer ...

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