Admiral Lord Nelson's decisive victory at the Battle of Trafalgar is well known. What is less well known is that without the ...

Rich tea, jammie dodger or chocolate digestive? Garibaldi, bourbon or shortbread? Fancy or plain, biscuits are as much a part ...

May 10th and 11th May from 10am to 5pm at Melton Mowbray Park Close Park & Town Centre, Play Close Park, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire Join us this weekend as we pay tribute to VE Day 80. Melton ...

Sat 25 January 2025 – Sun 2 February 2025 at Weald and Downland Living Museum, Town Lane, Singleton, Chichester West Sussex PO18 0EU To showcase how 15th century people would have lived, worked and ...

January 16th, 17th, 18th; 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th; 29th, 30th, 31st, 1st February, 2nd; 5th February, 6th, 7th, 8th and more – from 10am to 4pm at The Kitchen Front ...

The Kingdom of the Kentish, known today as the Kingdom of Kent, was one of the great seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England. Based around its capital of Canterbury, it was the first of the kingdoms to ...

Price: From £299.99 for the two night stay Surround yourself in history with a two night stay for two at the historic Appleby Castle in the Eden Valley. One of the few remaining intact Norman keeps, ...

Fighting had so far mainly consisted of heavy shelling by both sides interspersed with desperate forays by the infantry going “over the top” and, at the start of the war, cavalry engagements. The ...

Dating back to the fifteenth century, Plough Monday marked the beginning of the English agricultural year just as the celebrations of the Twelve Days of Christmas came to a conclusion. Every year, ...

Welcome to our new section of articles about Post War Britain; everyday life and events in the 1950s and 1960s. For those of you who remember these days, we hope you will enjoy reminiscing! Please ...