We all know of of the various wars, the Famine and the pivotal events which have made the Ireland what it is today, but few know the stranger aspects of the nation’s past. From body snatchers, to ...

The Deadly Game is a memoir written by Will Britten, the pseudonym of a military intelligence officer from one of the British Army’s most secretive units, the Force Research Unit (FRU), so secret that ...

Since the 1930s, Walt Disney and the Disney corporation have brought us some of the most magical and spell binding cinema ...

Author Dermot Turing answers questions about the forgotten Second World War codebreaking women of Bletchley Park.

Read more in The Dark Little History of Somerset by Mike Dean. A study of the past teaches us that human nature and behaviour have not fundamentally changed over the centuries, and that history has ...

The Witches and Wisefolk of Wales and the Borders talks about the history behind these unknown magical figures.

On a beach near Naples in October 79 CE, more than three hundred people were standing on a beach, hoping for an evacuation.

George Ward Price became the leading journalist of the 1930s through a string of exclusive stories about Nazi Germany. He spent an hour alone with Hitler and Göring after the remilitarisation of the ...

The British monarchy fascinates us, but why wouldn’t it? The list of kings and queens that we have been subjected to features a dazzling cast of characters, and we routinely debate over who deserves ...

‘Heartbreaking … Fascinating … Unbearably poignant.’ - Daily Mail 'Dramatic … Sensational ... Closely researched and compulsively readable.’ - The Lady ‘Meticulously researched, erudite and utterly ...

‘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 ...