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Tracey Norman TRACEY NORMAN is an historian and author with a particular interest in witchcraft cases. She is the author of the acclaimed play WITCH, using actual witch trial documents to tell the ...
20th June, 2025 in History, Society & Culture, True Crime Ask the Author: Neil Root on The Cleveland Street Scandal Seasoned journalist, acclaimed author, and true crime historian, Neil Root, delves ...
Geoff Holder GEOFF HOLDER is a full-time writer covering such diverse subjects as walking, natural history, archaeology, music and art. He is the author of a number of titles, including The Guide to ...
Catherine Lorigan CATHERINE LORIGAN has a BA (Hons) in Medieval and Modern History, an MSt in English Local History, a PhD in Cornish Studies, an MA in Music and a Diploma in Vernacular Architecture ...
1st August, 2023 in True Crime The crime of the Century: The truth behind the Great Train Robbery 8 August 2023, and the 60th anniversary of the crime that shocked the nation: the Great Train Robbery.
Out of print for over forty years, The 007 Diaries introduces Roger Moore’s James Bond Diary to a new generation of fans. To tie in with the release of his first James Bond film, Live and Let Die, ...
20th June, 2025 in History, Society & Culture, True Crime Ask the Author: Neil Root on The Cleveland Street Scandal Seasoned journalist, acclaimed author, and true crime historian, Neil Root, delves ...
Hugh Hollinghurst HUGH HOLLINGHURST was a deputy headteacher in Liverpool for twenty-six years. After retirement he wrote a number of books, mainly on local history and the art and architecture of ...
On 9 September 2015, Queen Elizabeth II, having previously surpassed her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria, in 2007, to become the longest-lived British monarch, became the longest-reigning ...
Source There is little unanimity about the source of the outbreak. Some believe that the flu originated in the US when a feverish soldier, Albert Gitchell, reported to the infirmary at training ...
The Normandie – carrying 1,972 passengers (848 in first class, 670 in tourist and 454 in third) – was certainly the most extravagantly decorated liner of her day, perhaps of all time. The main dining ...
18 July 2017 was a special day for literature aficionados across the globe, for it marked the 200 th anniversary of the death of perhaps the most beloved writer of them all: Jane Austen. It was on ...