Two earthquakes shook London in early 1750. Then a third was predicted. Cue thousands of Londoners fleeing the city in panic, ...

Audrey Hepburn’s name evokes the glamour and elegance of the golden age of cinema in the 1950s. Yet her childhood and ...

At the outbreak of the Second World War, around three quarters of Britain’s homes owned a radio, known as the “wireless”. It was a lifeline during the dark days of World War Two, entertaining and ...

The legacy of Rhodri ap Merfyn, commonly known as Rhodri the Great (Rhodri Mawr in Welsh) reaches far beyond his lifetime. The ruler of Gwynedd, Rhodri was one of the earliest Welsh leaders to unite ...

Traditionally, the Christian festival of Shrovetide was a time to “shrive” or confess your sins, to eat and drink your fill before the abstinence of Lent, and to have a bit of fun. Left over bits of ...

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 ...

In 1216 Prince Louis of France sailed with a force of men to England, invited by rebellious barons to oust King John and take the throne of England. Prince Louis may well have succeeded had he not ...

SOCIOLOGISTS have argued long and hard about the cultural revolution called The Swinging Sixties. Christopher Booker, for example, claimed many Brits were unable to cope with the post-war economic ...

Four days before Lord Chelmsford’s invading force ended the Anglo-Zulu War by defeating King Cetewayo’s army at the Battle of Ulundi, a Zulu impi killed Louis Napoleon, the heir to the French throne.

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 the nineteenth century, the East Enders of London invented a way to communicate through coded speech, which became known as Cockney Rhyming slang. Its emergence has been dated to the 1840s, a time ...

On the 5th July 1948 an historic moment occurred in British history, a culmination of a bold and pioneering plan to make healthcare no longer exclusive to those who could afford it but to make it ...