Blatman gives the downtown plan two thumbs up. He is fascinated by how the downtown core can be connected to the nearby ...

Each year, the American Library Association complies a list of books that are challenged and banned. There are some books ...

John Lennon and Paul McCartney always seemed to have duelling auras about them, but Macca felt this line was quintessentially his writing partner's.

Sir Walter Raleigh (or Ralegh), explorer, courtier, writer and poet, is buried in the chancel of St Margaret's Church Westminster and there is a memorial tablet and stained glass window to him there.

John Donne, an imposing figure in the history of English poetry, was born in London in 1572 and was eight years younger than ...

Over the years, we’ve received a lot of questions about living in Raleigh and what makes it special, so we’ve decided it was ...

We are talking about Sir Walter Raleigh who was a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I. Yet 438 years after his death, he was at the centre of a road accident on Wearside. Did you know with a Digital ...

In the 16th century, Elizabethan explorer Sir Walter Raleigh set sail in search of El Dorado, a legendary city full of gold and precious jewels. 400 years on, and with the site of El Dorado still ...

But the presumed fabulous treasure in the deeper water was beyond their reach. English courtier Sir Walter Raleigh made two trips to Guiana to search for El Dorado. During his second trip in 1617 ...

In the sixteenth century, Sir Walter Raleigh began his search for El Dorado in Guyana's rainforest. Four hundred years on and a group of young adventurers from the UK - the Serious Explorers - are ...

“Either during the 1584 visit by Amadas and Barlowe or the 1585 military outpost under Ralph Lane, rather than during Sir Walter Raleigh’s final effort, the 1587 civilian settlement led by ...

The Pea Island Preservation Society, Inc., (PIPSI) is pleased to announce two October events to be held at the Pea Island Cookhouse Museum located at Collins Park, 622 Sir Walter Raleigh Street in ...