When British troops went to seize arms stockpiled by American colonists at Concord, Massachusetts, they could have had little ...

Once considered a cosy mark of luxury, the decision to lay plush shagpile in the most humid and accident-prone room in the house has become something of a national punchline. Speaking on the ...

In February 1942, as the Blitz continued to batter Britain, London’s streets were plunged into darkness every night under government-enforced blackouts. These conditions, designed to shield the city ...

In 1945, Sidney Bernstein was given the job of making a film from the raw footage taken by British soldiers at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. He turned to Alfred Hitchcock for help. Martin ...

The ancient Romans were pioneers in many aspects of medicine, but their treatments and surgeries were often painful, gruesome, and dangerous by modern standards. Without formal medical regulations, ...

The Illuminati is a name given to both a real secret society and a fictitious one. The latter has fuelled conspiracy theories for years, described as a secretive and mysterious worldwide organisation ...

Every Easter Monday, in the village of Biddenden in Kent, a charity doles out tea, cheese and loaves of bread to local pensioners, and distributes hard-baked biscuits, known as Biddenden cakes, to ...

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