The Huguenots were French Protestants from the sixteenth and seventeenth century who fled from the French Catholic government fearing persecution and violence. As they fled, a diaspora of Huguenots ...

In an ancient and unassuming church grounds, in a tiny village called Fortingall, nestled deep into the Perthshire countryside, lives what is arguably the oldest living tree in Europe. It is an ...

England held its breath as the mighty Spanish Armada sailed up the English Channel. Invasion appeared imminent. Then Queen Elizabeth I is reputed to have made a rousing speech to her troops as they ...

General Charles Cornwallis is best known for his part in the British defeat at Yorktown during the American Revolutionary War ...

In 1781, American and French forces under George Washington laid siege to the British army at Yorktown. This would become the most decisive battle of the American Revolutionary ...

A British Army intelligence officer, John André was hanged as a spy at Tappan, New York, on Oct. 2nd 1780 on the orders of ...

The campaigns in Italy in 1943 and 1944 were tough and bloody ones, with some of the most brutal engagements of the Second ...

One of the most defining features of the county of Nottinghamshire is Sherwood Forest which is a woodland and former royal hunting ground, perhaps most commonly known as the location for the legendary ...

The Victorian Workhouse was an institution that was intended to provide work and shelter for poverty stricken people who had no means to support themselves. With the advent of the Poor Law system, ...

Cotton, a valuable raw material and a mainstay of the textile industry, has been around for centuries and remains one of the most crucial resources to this day. Cotton has been used by humans as far ...

638 – Jerusalem is captured by the Caliph Omar. April 1081 – Aug 1118- Reign of Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. 1088 – 1099 – Reign of Pope Urban II. March 1095 – Byzantine Emperor Alexios I ...

The Grand Tour was the utlimate Georgian / Victorian gap year experience. Expensive and glamourous, this was a rite of passage for rich aristocratic young men (and later, women) who travelled Europe, ...