Madam V traces the journey of Virginia Vernon during WW2, who was tasked with looking after the welfare of performers ...

Situated on the Roman Akeman Street, in the heart of the Vale to which it gives its name, Aylesbury’s claim to be the county town of Buckinghamshire derives from its centrality and its early status as ...

MARTIN W. BOWMAN is the author of over 100 books on military and commercial aviation as well as photographic books on a variety of subjects. He has participated in German and USAFE air/land and night ...

Adam Bushnell, Nigel Clifton (Illustrator), ...

ALISON TAYLOR is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, Member of the Institute of Field Archaeologists and editor of the Proceedings of Cambridge Antiquarian Society. She was County Archaeologist ...

An Illustrated Journey through History by Time Team Artist Victor Ambrus ...

Sussex, though near London and nowadays extensively urbanised, has a rich heritage of traditional local stories, customs and beliefs. Among many topics explored here are tales linked to landscape ...

JOHN and COLLEEN DARNELL are a husband-and-wife Egyptologist team. They have presented on the Discovery Channel, History Channel, National Geographic, the Science Channel, and Smithsonian, as well as ...

Three Sisters is the name of one of the potting, scalloping and shrimp ing boats that operate out of Aberystwyth harbour. The ...

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 ...

The devastating North Sea flood of 1953 caused catastrophic damage and loss of life in Scotland, England, Belgium and The Netherlands and became one of the worst peacetime disasters of the 20th ...

Mark Norman author of Telling the Bees and Other Customs: The Folklore of Rural Crafts talks about the ancient bee custom of ‘telling the bees’ and its connection to royalty. When the British monarch, ...