Historic photos of the Cheshire Blitz reveal the impact of WWII bombing raids, showing bomb damage across towns in the county ...

These old Cardiff stories were told before they were written down. Told, remembered and passed on. And there have been people living in Cardiff for over 6,000 years, so who knows how old some of these ...

Learn about the influence of Greenham Common on feminist ideals and the message of empowerment passed down through generations.

The discovery team leaders (from left to right): Jean-Louis Michel of the French National Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER) (standing in a dark sweater), Jean Jerry (IFREMER) ...

I like to think that there is a symmetry between my query of myself in 1967 – ‘why don’t girls play football?’ – with my thought over fifty years later that the history of the Women’s Football ...

In the thirteenth century the law and finances of each English county were under the jurisdiction of a sheriff (the word comes from ‘shire-reeve’), who was appointed by the Crown. Catherine Hanley ...

Amser maith yn ôl / A long time ago. The shallow sea in Cardigan Bay, from Pen Llŷn in the north to Ceredigion in the west, was once a mix of forests, lakes, rivers, swamps and saltmarsh. The nomadic ...

The Titanic disaster is famous not only for the two-hour-forty-minute stately submerging of the ship into the icy water and the numerous human dramas that unfolded on board, but also for the breaking ...

According to the make-it-up-as-you-go-along 12th-century historian Geoffrey of Monmouth, the River Humber was named after Humber, the King of the Huns. Learn more behind the history of Humber Crossing ...

In November 1999 the Polish boxer Andrzej Gołota fought Michael Grant in Atlantic City before an audience of fight fans, celebrities, and expat Poles. In the audience was Donald Trump, then a real ...

Brimming with lies, hagiography and exaggeration! Elizabeth Gaskell’s sensational 1857 biography of her friend Charlotte Brontë continues to divide historians, critics and Brontë fans over 160 years ...

21st April marks the anniversary of the birth of English novelist and poet Charlotte Brontë. While she lived only 38 years, her legacy – and her celebrity – have remained perennially present. Her 1847 ...