His mother had warned him about the Leannan Sidhe, a fairy woman of great beauty wanting to carry off handsome young men who ...

A wonderful review for The Anthology of Scottish Folk Tales: Volume II featured in Country Life online. ‘They remain, really, the property of all of those who love them, know them, and tell them. They ...

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For decades now the public has been told that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance and that antidepressants work by targeting this mechanism. Millions of people have decided to take ...

The Women’s Land Army was established by the British government to recruit women and girls to work in Britain’s agriculture industry in both twentieth century world wars. The necessity was prompted by ...

Swept by strong ocean currents and ferocious storms, Rathlin Island is mysterious and hauntingly beautiful. Lying just six miles off the north coast of County Antrim, it is the most northerly ...

Caroline Biggs CAROLINE BIGGS has lived all her life in Cambridge. She was an active Trustee of The Museum of Cambridge, where she founded a history festival to redress the massive imbalance between ...

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 ...

Author Graham Watson details the influence and legacy of one of our most famous female authors, Charlotte Brontë.

Cambridge University is renowned worldwide for its academic prowess, but below the surface lurks a murky past.

Following seven years of investigation and intelligence gathering, including archival searches around the world, Phase One of The Missing Princes Project is complete. The evidence uncovered suggests ...

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 ...