His mother had warned him about the Leannan Sidhe, a fairy woman of great beauty wanting to carry off handsome young men who were betrothed to another. It was said that once she got her eye on a man ...

The Welsh Utopia Amser maith yn ôl / A long time ago. The shallow sea in Cardigan Bay, from Pen Llŷn in the north to Ceredigion in the west, was once a mix of forests, lakes, rivers, swamps and ...

Caroline Biggs CAROLINE BIGGS has lived all her life in Cambridge. She was an active Trustee of The Museum of Cambridge, where she founded a history festival to redress the massive imbalance between ...

Pirates and music: I imagine what comes into your head is that haunting refrain from Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, or perhaps the soaring chords of an orchestral film score and the ...

Excavated cat bones and cat images on vases and coins are proof that cats were padding about southern Italy at the end of the fifth century BC. By the time we get to the Roman Empire, there must have ...

Historical facts you may not know about the Lady Katherine Grey - the forgotten Tudor heir.

In the 1740s the notorious Hawkhurst Gang brought the old practice of smuggling to new and dangerous heights.

Queen’s Proctor Mr Solly-Flood heard ‘so extraordinary a picture’ of the Mary Celeste incident by the testimonies of Deveau, Wright, Lund, Anderson and Johnson, up to 22 December 1872, that he was ...

Pauline Gower’s convent school years helped form her character, fuelling her drive and determination, and establishing her interests and future potential. Sir Robert Gower chose her school with the ...

Lisa Schneidau author of River Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland talks about the freshwater follies and fantasies.

Perhaps the most well known though least understood element of espionage, the use of honey traps can be found throughout history.

It’s a common misconception that our modern view of Christmas and how to celebrate it in the UK originated only in the nineteenth century. But although Queen Victoria and Prince Albert did much to ...