His mother had warned him about the Leannan Sidhe, a fairy woman of great beauty wanting to carry off handsome young men who ...

‘The discoveries in this book shed new light on events surrounding the Princes in the Tower. Rather than favour Tudor propaganda or Victorian revisionism, this asks us to go back to the time and ...

It started with two old photos for sale at auction: Royal Navy sailors carrying a buoy on a wharf on the St. Lawrence. Historian David Saint-Pierre knew that the only time this happened was when the ...

A Royal Outcast The Life and Scandal of Princess Louise, Prince Albert’s Mother Ulrike Grunewald, Sarah The Duchess of York (Foreword), Edward Maltby ...

Have you ever wondered what happened to the bodies of those who were left behind the night the Titanic sank? By 02.20am on Sunday 15th April, many people had been plunged into the freezing waters of ...

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On her launch in 1969, QE2 began a long career as Cunard’s luxurious flagship – the last great transatlantic liner from a vanishing era. However, this leisure service was interrupted in 1982 when she ...

Robert Ross ROBERT ROSS is the leading authority on the history of British comedy. His sixteen books include The Carry On Companion, and official BBC celebrations of Fawlty Towers, Last of the Summer ...

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 Little Book of Scotland is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without. Discover the most ...

The county of Lincolnshire is a beautiful mixture of low-lying marshy fen land, modest hills and the steep valleys of the rolling Wolds. It is also home to a wealth of folklore, legend and intrigue.

‘Reads like a fairy tale … Far from frivolous, this biography draws on original research to give a nuanced account.’ – The Lady ‘Immerse yourself in The Fabulous Frances Farquharson … an American who ...