Singapore, Hong Kong, Imphal, Kohima, Hiroshima, Nagasaki. Names that will forever evoke images of the brutal war fought by the Allies against the Imperial Japanese Army in South East Asia. We ...

Dartmoor. The setting for Conan Doyle's Hound of the Baskervilles, this beautiful but rugged region of Devon is shrouded in ...

What happened to the Sandringhams during the disastrous Dardanelles campaign in the middle of their first battle, on the afternoon of August 12 1915?

The title of this story may sound immediately implausible to the cynics amongst you, but surprisingly this is one tale of folklore which is probably founded on some basis of truth! The legend of the ...

On 1st August 1798 at Aboukir Bay near Alexandria, Egypt, the Battle of the Nile began. The conflict was an important tactical naval encounter fought between the British Royal Navy and the Navy of the ...

Here you will find grouped together articles and features about British sport, and stars of British sport. Association Football, aka Soccer As that well known ...

Opium, laudanum and other narcotic drugs played an important part in Victorian life.

The Victorian Workhouse was an institution that was intended to provide work and shelter for poverty stricken people who had no means to support themselves. With the advent of the Poor Law system, ...

The Industrial Revolution took place from the eighteenth century up until the mid-nineteenth century, marking a process of increased manufacturing and production which boosted industry and encouraged ...

The year was 1888 and the location Bow in the East End of London, a place where some of the most poverty stricken in society lived and worked. The Match Girls’ Strike was industrial action taken up by ...

The Highland Clearances remain a controversial period in Scotland’s history. Sheep farming being more profitable than farming, thousands of people were forcibly 'cleared' from the Scottish highlands ...

The term ‘hangover’ is universally understood to mean the disproportionate suffering that comes after a night of over-indulgence. But where does the term actually come from? One possible explanation ...