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

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 Her former five-star jetset lifestyle has been replaced by a retirement of gardening and fly-fishing.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 ...

Marilyn Yurdan MARILYN YURDAN attended Holton Park Grammar School for Girls in Oxfordshire during the 1950s. She went on to work as Assistant Custodian at the University of Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre ...

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

A century ago the world was in the grip of a devastating influenza pandemic, known as the 'Spanish Flu', which killed millions worldwide.

Exploring royal engagement rings from the last 200 years to discover what makes these pieces of jewellery so unique.

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

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 ...

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