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 ...

MARNIE PALMER now lives near Bath with her new partner, John, and their two Jack Russell terriers. Her former five-star jetset lifestyle has been replaced by a retirement of gardening and fly-fishing.

ROGER LING is Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Manchester. In addition to excavating widely in Britain, he has directed a programme of recorded and analysis in the ...

The chilling and little-known story of Adolf Hitler’s eight-year march to the pinnacle of German politics. On the night of 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler leaned out of a spotlit window of the Reich ...

LINDA SEVER is Senior Lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire.

Lancashire, situated in the north west of England, does not at first tend to conjure up an images of ‘a sacred’ landscape. But look at bit deeper and one will discover a vast array of sites of ritual ...

Alf Townsend The late ALF TOWNSEND was born in London in the 1930s. He was a London cabbie for 42 years and published many books about his life experiences, including The London Cabbie and Blitz Boy.

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 ...

How peace symbols have been used throughout history in various cultures and contexts.

On 20 November 1992, Windsor Castle, the largest inhabited castle in Europe and one of the official residences of Queen Elizabeth II, suffered extensive damage in a huge fire. The fire began in the ...

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