Francis Drake carried the drum on the final voyage that killed him, a 1596 campaign in the West Indies that ended in dysentery rather than glory, and it now sits in the Treasures gallery at Buckland ...
Prince Albert died in 1861 at the age of 42, and for the four decades that followed, his widow slept with his portrait propped on his pillow and the pouch holding his watch hanging above the bed. Both ...
Wren was at Charles II’s door with a plan for a new London within a fortnight of the Great Fire of 1666, proposing wide streets and open plazas in place of the medieval tangle that had burned. The ...
Most of Britain’s coastline has long since been found, photographed and queued for, which is what makes the far west of Wales such a reliable escape from the usual circuit. Six days will carry you ...
The Battle of Britain was still being fought overhead when Churchill told the House that never had so much been owed by so many to so few. The line fixed the fighter pilots in the national memory as ...
Fresh out of WREN training in 1944, Ruth Bourne was assigned to something called SDX, and when she asked what the X stood for she was told that was precisely what nobody could tell her. She ended up ...
Thomas Hardy renamed Dorchester as Casterbridge and set his 1885 tragedy almost entirely within walking distance of the Corn Exchange, which is why his novel is the one great work of English fiction a ...
When the late Queen stepped out on an engagement, the officers shadowing her rarely used her name, referring to her instead as "Sharon" or simply "S" over the radio. The same quiet system has covered ...
On September 3, 1670, a bailiff snatched the hats from the heads of William Penn and William Mead as the two men entered a London courtroom, charged with holding a Quaker meeting in defiance of the ...
Originally built in the 11th century, the keep of Durham Castle has been a residence hall for students at the University of Durham since 1840.[/caption] ONE OF BRITAIN’S MOST PICTURESQUE county towns ...
ONE OF ENGLAND’S MOST RENOWNED INDUSTRIES GREW IN THE TOWNS THAT BECAME STOKE-ON-TRENT. FEW TODAY WOULD THINK of pottery making as a revolutionary enterprise. Tables piled with ornate dishware usually ...
On April 26, 1923, The Duke of York and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, later King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, were married in Westminster Abbey, London. Queen Elizabeth II's father started out in life as ...
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