Admiral Lord Nelson's decisive victory at the Battle of Trafalgar is well known. What is less well known is that without the ...

Rich tea, jammie dodger or chocolate digestive? Garibaldi, bourbon or shortbread? Fancy or plain, biscuits are as much a part ...

Sat 25 January 2025 – Sun 2 February 2025 at Weald and Downland Living Museum, Town Lane, Singleton, Chichester West Sussex PO18 0EU To showcase how 15th century people would have lived, worked and ...

Welcome to our new section of articles about Post War Britain; everyday life and events in the 1950s and 1960s. For those of you who remember these days, we hope you will enjoy reminiscing! Please ...

Price: From £299.99 for the two night stay Surround yourself in history with a two night stay for two at the historic Appleby Castle in the Eden Valley. One of the few remaining intact Norman keeps, ...

Became king following the death of his brother Æthelbald. Like his brother and his father, Aethelbert (pictured above) was crowned at Kingston-upon-Thames. Shortly after his succession a Danish army ...

Here you will find grouped together articles and features about traditional British food and drink, a vital part of British culture and what makes the Brits British!

One hundred years ago, on the 10th January 1918 the House of Lords gave approval for women over the age of thirty to have the right to vote. The historical political decision was passed under the ...

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This morning my choice of clothes was a rather a haphazard affair. Having planned to spend the day writing, I knew I wasn’t in need of anything spectacular, but even so, the leggings, slippers and ...

The Kingdom of the Kentish, known today as the Kingdom of Kent, was one of the great seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England. Based around its capital of Canterbury, it was the first of the kingdoms to ...