Henry Avery, also known as Henry Every, earned the name 'King of Pirates' for an audacious act of piracy against a convoy of ...

Brutal, outrageous and often hilariously exaggerated, these caricatures offer a fascinating window into the social, political ...

The most famous of all English playwrights was born in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1564. William’s father John was a wealthy merchant and a respectable member of the community within the small Warwickshire ...

The last ever pitched battle to be fought on British soil took place on 16th April 1746 on Drummossie Moor, overlooking Inverness. Charles Edward Stewart, The Young Pretender The Jacobite Rising was ...

“We place absolute confidence in the Titanic. We believe that the boat is unsinkable.” – Philip Franklin, Vice-President of White Star Line, owners of Titanic. When she set sail across the Atlantic on ...

On Palm Sunday, March 29th 1461, arguably the largest and bloodiest battle on English soil took place, fought by an estimated 50,000 men continuing throughout the day and into the night. Among the ...

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Many inventions throughout history have shaped the modern world in which we live. For many of us, our lifestyle and expectations have been shaped by processes, discoveries and accidents which happened ...

The Battle of Towton on 29th March 1461 was possibly the largest and bloodiest battle ever fought on English soil. Although the Lancastrian King Henry VI had transferred the right of succession to the ...