Yvonne Singh details the lives and legacies of five Black British journalists who should be as well known as George Orwell.

The majority of Nottinghamshire’s women remain unknown to history but they were often far from voiceless. The region’s female ...

Named after the peoples of Ciarraige who inhabited the ancient territory, Kerry possesses a rich tapestry of history, legend and folklore unparalleled by many others. In this book, authors Gary ...

For decades now the public has been told that depression is caused by a chemical imbalance and that antidepressants work by targeting this mechanism. Millions of people have decided to take ...

The White Funnel Fleet of P&A Campbell had a long and successful association with England’s south coast, with the company’s Bristol Channel steamer excursions perhaps being their best-known operation.

West Bromwich was the largest and most distinguished of the towns amalgamated into the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell and, despite its modern appearance, has roots in the distant past. There is ...

Since Corby became the site of a new iron, steel & tube works in 1933, the village of 1,500 has grown into a new torn of 60,000. Many of the families that arrived came from north of the border and ...

50 Crazy Inventions That Should Never Have Been Built, And What We Can Learn From Them ...

The Second World War widows were the ‘forgotten women’, largely ignored by the government and the majority of the population. The men who died in the service of their country were rightly honoured, ...

Where can you see an effigy of a Templar? What prompted King John to hand England over to an Italian? Who worked for the Templars in Yorkshire? The Knights Templar in Yorkshire answers all these ...

The remains of the world’s most famous passenger liner, RMS Titanic, were discovered off the coast of Newfoundland in 1985, seventy-three years after it sank; since then there have been numerous ...

I tend to think of Derbyshire’s landscape as a beautiful patchwork quilt stitched together by its dry-stone walls. The fabric of the past may be reused or altered but look closely and traces of the ...