It is the summer of 1889, and the royal family is in crisis. It is well known in polite society, in the drawing rooms of the ...

Author Simon Farquhar dives into the grisly world of true crime and asks, why is murder so common at Christmas?

Following in the example of L.T.C Rolt who was influential in the revival of British inland waterways and preserved steam ...

And other Rathlin Folk Tales from the Tommy Cecil Archive ...

Author Anne Strathie is a writer and researcher, whose three biographies of members of Robert Scott’s 1910-13 Terra Nova Antarctic expedition are published by The History Press. Her new book, A ...

Last, but not least, I hope that readers – whether experienced polar travellers and historians or those who have learned recently about the finding of the Endurance wreck or at-risk penguin colonies – ...

HELEN ROWE has dedicated her professional life to tackling some of the big issues that have faced this country from counter-terrorism to, over the last decades, looking at practical ways to tackle ...

ALAN WARREN is the author of the critically acclaimed Singapore 1942: Britain’s Greatest Defeat. He has been a fellow of the State Library of Victoria and has lectured in history at Monash University.

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KEVIN CAHILL is an investigative journalist and author of ‘Who Owns Britain’ (Canongate) and ‘Who Owns the World (Penguin Random House). He was also the primary researcher behind The Sunday Times Rich ...