The 2017 film 'Victoria and Abdul' highlights the real-life relationship between Queen Victoria and her Indian Muslim servant ...

Penwith is where Britain ends. It is the final strip of land before the sea, stretching out a small finger into the ocean as ...

The battle of Naseby was fought on the foggy morning of 14th June 1645 and is considered one of the most important battles in the English Civil War. After almost three years of fighting, the 14,000 ...

“Quite enough disaster for today.” In an anecdote somewhat buried in his Memoirs of the Second World War, Prime Minister Winston Churchill recounts a “frightful incident” that occurred on June 17, ...

Prepare for an action-packed day at Rockingham Castle! Watch as the Knights of Nottingham take to the Tilting Lawn in an epic display of jousting. Set in the stunning grounds of Rockingham Castle, ...

On Tuesday 29th October 1929 the Wall Street Crash caused a cataclysmic chain of events which affected nearly every country across the globe. The Great Depression, also known as ‘The Slump’ ...

The Victorian Workhouse was an institution that was intended to provide work and shelter for poverty stricken people who had no means to support themselves. With the advent of the Poor Law system, ...

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 ...

From “The Chimney Sweeper” by William Blake, from his work “Songs of Innocence and of Experience”, 1795 . Children were used for chimney sweeping due to their diminutive size that enabled them to fit ...

“There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as a good tavern or inn.” So wrote Samuel Johnson and for many, this remains true today. Think of an ...

Cotton, a valuable raw material and a mainstay of the textile industry, has been around for centuries and remains one of the most crucial resources to this day. Cotton has been used by humans as far ...

Throughout the Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian eras the Royal Navy boasted the largest and most powerful fleet in the world. From protecting the Empire’s trade routes to projecting Britain’s ...