He had asked his love to be his bride, and she had kissed him and said that she would be honoured. This rare love knew no ...

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 ...

Over three decades ago the wreckage of the RMS Titanic, the former pride of the White Star fleet, was discovered – or, perhaps, re-discovered – two and a half miles below the surface of the Atlantic ...

Slavery has existed for millennia in varying forms in all parts of the world. Affecting all races, gender and age groups. It is only in recent times that it has been globally outlawed with the United ...

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.” attributed to oscar wilde That honey traps remain among the most widely known and least understood category of intelligence ...

2018 was a busier than usual year for the Royal Family, with two of its members marrying. Following the announcement of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s engagement, Princess Eugenie and fiancé Jack ...

Anyone with only passing knowledge of Notting Hill will probably have formed their views based on events like the annual Notting Hill Carnival, the eponymous nineties romcom starring Hugh Grant and ...

When the first Irish railway was opened in 1834, it did not go the whole way from Dublin (Westland Row) to Kingstown (Dún Laoghaire), but only to Salthill (now Salthill and Monkstown). It was ...

Neil R. Storey author of Norwich in the Second World War tells the story of the city and its people, as far as possible, in the words of those who were actually there. When the acclaimed Norfolk ...

Brimming with lies, hagiography and exaggeration! Elizabeth Gaskell’s sensational 1857 biography of her friend Charlotte Brontë continues to divide historians, critics and Brontë fans over 160 years ...

Graham Faiella, author of the Thrilling Tales of the Sea series, recounts five tales of ships that were attacked by whales. The whaleship Essex sailed from Nantucket on 12 August 1819, commanded by ...

In 1893, Hawley Harvey Crippen married his second wife, Cora Turner, in Jersey City, America. Seven years later, in 1900, they moved to London. Crippen was employed as a representative for Munyon’s ...