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) ...

Bletchley Park is perceived as a world of male intellectuals supported by a vast staff of women in menial roles – a place where men helped sway the course of the Second World War. But women were not ...

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 ...

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 ...

Henry, the king who was married six times and started his own church. Mary, the first regnal queen. Elizabeth, the queen who refused to marry. These are the Tudor royals that we all know about – but ...

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 ...

Pirates and music: I imagine what comes into your head is that haunting refrain from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, or perhaps the soaring chords of an orchestral film score and the ...

East Anglia is known for its fabulous coastline and riverside cities such as Cambridge and Norwich. The countryside in between is all-too-often dismissed as being flat and featureless. While ‘hill’ is ...