Explore how Amundsen's risky choice at the south pole gave him a crucial advantage over Scott in the historic race to the Pole.

I was fortunate enough to be brought up by a Greenham Common Woman and this involved starting my feminist journey incredibly young – one of my earliest memories is of humming along to the Tammy ...

Nottinghamshire has been home to some extraordinary women throughout history. They were often underestimated, demonstrated strong character and achieved their goals against the odds. Even today, they ...

The discovery team leaders (from left to right): Jean-Louis Michel of the French National Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER) (standing in a dark sweater), Jean Jerry (IFREMER) ...

Wales holds in the popular imagination a reputation of magic, mystery, and ancient ways. A land apart from its’ neighbours, Cymru has been a destination for centuries, but more importantly it is home ...

In the thirteenth century the law and finances of each English county were under the jurisdiction of a sheriff (the word comes from ‘shire-reeve’), who was appointed by the Crown. Catherine Hanley ...

When Lady Dorothy Mills was a young girl, a female relative told her she would never be beautiful so she had better be interesting – and she was. Yet extraordinarily, this is the first book about this ...

In November 1999 the Polish boxer Andrzej Gołota fought Michael Grant in Atlantic City before an audience of fight fans, celebrities, and expat Poles. In the audience was Donald Trump, then a real ...

Northumberland has more castles, fortalices, towers, peles, bastles and barmkins than any other county in the British Isles. Castles of all periods were the private residences and fortresses of kings ...

Pirates and music: I imagine what comes into your head is that haunting refrain from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, or perhaps the soaring chords of an orchestral film score and the ...

21st April marks the anniversary of the birth of English novelist and poet Charlotte Brontë. While she lived only 38 years, her legacy – and her celebrity – have remained perennially present. Her 1847 ...

‘A sense of delight permeates Gyles Brandreth’s John Gielgud: An Actor’s Life … Brandreth combines neat reportage, deft evocation and lovely tales about a man he knew and relished.’ – The Times ‘A ...