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

TRACEY NORMAN is an historian and author with a particular interest in witchcraft cases. She is the author of the acclaimed play WITCH, using actual witch trial documents to tell the story of a ...

JOANNA FOAT discovered the story of the Lumberjills while she was a PR consultant for the Forestry Commission. After four years’ research, travelling the country to meet over sixty Lumberjills, she ...

ROGER PROTZ is well known as a full-time writer on beer and pubs. He was the editor of the CAMRA Good Beer Guide from 2000-2018 and a columnist for What’s Brewing and BEER magazine. He is the twice ...

Lancashire, situated in the north west of England, does not at first tend to conjure up an images of ‘a sacred’ landscape. But look at bit deeper and one will discover a vast array of sites of ritual ...

ROGER LING is Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Manchester. In addition to excavating widely in Britain, he has directed a programme of recorded and analysis in the ...

Report into the Loss of the SS Titanic is a complete re-evaluation of the loss of Titanic based on evidence that has come to light since the discovery of the wreck in 1985. This collective undertaking ...

Marilyn Yurdan MARILYN YURDAN attended Holton Park Grammar School for Girls in Oxfordshire during the 1950s. She went on to work as Assistant Custodian at the University of Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre ...

Alf Townsend The late ALF TOWNSEND was born in London in the 1930s. He was a London cabbie for 42 years and published many books about his life experiences, including The London Cabbie and Blitz Boy.

Over three decades ago the wreckage of the RMS Titanic, the former pride of the White Star fleet, was discovered – or, perhaps, re-discovered – two and a half miles below the surface of the Atlantic ...

A century ago the world was in the grip of a devastating influenza pandemic, known as the 'Spanish Flu', which killed millions worldwide.