CATHERINE LORIGAN has a BA (Hons) in Medieval and Modern History, an MSt in English Local History, a PhD in Cornish Studies, an MA in Music and a Diploma in Vernacular Architecture with distinction, ...

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 ...

Slavery has existed for millennia in varying forms in all parts of the world. Here is a brief history of the major slave trades.

Over the centuries many different cultures, religions, political movements and individuals have developed peace symbols to communicate peace, harmony and reconciliation. Here we look at the origins of ...

The anchorite, or religious recluse, has been a part of Christian religious life since its early days. They lived solitary lives out in the desert – indeed, these solitaries became collectively known ...

The devastating North Sea flood of 1953 caused catastrophic damage and loss of life in Scotland, England, Belgium and The Netherlands and became one of the worst peacetime disasters of the 20 th ...

On 28 August 1833, the Slavery Abolition Act was given Royal Assent and came into force on the following 1 August 1834. Its full bill title was ‘An Act for the Abolition of Slavery throughout the ...

When the First World War broke out, the international port city of Rotterdam became the biggest spy centre of the world. Both British and German secret services choose neutral Holland, and Rotterdam ...

The infamous Dr Crippen was executed in 1910 for poisoning and dismembering his wife in Islington, London ...

Graham Faiella, author of the Thrilling Tales of the Sea series, recounts five tales of ships that were attacked by whales.

Nicholson’s reputation for being brutal is interwoven with his undoubted bad temper, which was in part the product of temperament but probably as much the results of the poisonous cocktail of ...

Excavated cat bones and cat images on vases and coins are proof that cats were padding about southern Italy at the end of the fifth century BC. By the time we get to the Roman Empire, there must have ...