Radio Rentals, DER, Rediffusion, Granada, Visionhire, Martin Dawes and Thorn Television Rentals were all well-known names on the 1970s British High Street that have now all but disappeared. At its ...

King Athelstan is remembered as a great Anglo-Saxon King but perhaps most significantly he is considered by many to be the first King of the English, ending his reign overseeing his extensive kingdom.

In 1714, the ascendancy of King George I marked the beginning of the House of Hanover in the British monarchy. His life began in Germany. Born in May 1660 George was the son of Ernest Augustus, the ...

Often referred to as the matriarch of the Tudors, Margaret Beaufort was a powerful member of the royal household and an influential figure in the greater political machinations of the day. Herself a ...

The British Empire is remembered for its extensive, long-lasting and far-reaching imperial activities that ushered in an era of globalisation and connectivity. The British Empire began in its ...

In two successive years of the 17th century London suffered two terrible disasters. In the spring and summer of 1665 an outbreak of Bubonic Plague spread from parish to parish until thousands had died ...

Emily Davison, influential British suffragette, was born in South East London in 1872. She was a high achiever and won a scholarship to study literature at Royal Holloway College when she finished ...

Gwenllian, daughter of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd was born on 12th June 1282 at Garth Celyn Abergwyngregyn. Eleanor de Montfort, daughter of the French baron Simon de Montfort, was her mother. Eleanor died ...

The longbow as we recognise it today, measuring around the height of a man, made its first major appearance towards the end of the Middle Ages. Although generally attributed to the Welsh, longbows ...