By contrast, it’s almost ironic that today, Whitney is best remembered as a racing driver. He shot through motor sport like a ...

Whitney Straight is a fascinating story of speed, courage, romance, determination and tragedy. Drawing on Straight’s diaries, photograph albums, and extensive archival research on both sides of the ...

PATRICIA MEEHAN spent several years as a welfare worker in post-war Germany. She began a long career in television in the USA before joining the BBC, where she became a producer specialising in ...

Delve into the complex dynamics of the Mitford sisters and their mother, Lady Redesdale, a figure of controversy and strength ...

In 1945 women joined the ranks of the Royal Society, the UK’s premier scientific academy, for the first time. Over the next ...

Slavery has existed for millennia in varying forms in all parts of the world. Affecting all races, gender and age groups. It is only in recent times that it has been globally outlawed with the United ...

The popular TV show Outlander, now in its seventh season, is based on a series of historical novels written by Diana Gabaldon. In the series Claire Randall, a nurse from the Second Wold War, travels ...

2018 was a busier than usual year for the Royal Family, with two of its members marrying. Following the announcement of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s engagement, Princess Eugenie and fiancé Jack ...

‘Banbridge town in the County Down’, as mentioned in the traditional folksong The Star of the County Down, is surrounded by stunning scenery. Its name comes from a bridge built over the Upper Bann in ...

When the first Irish railway was opened in 1834, it did not go the whole way from Dublin (Westland Row) to Kingstown (Dún Laoghaire), but only to Salthill (now Salthill and Monkstown). It was ...

The use of the olive branch as a symbol of peace in Western civilisation dates back to at least 5th century BC Greece. The ancient Greeks believed that olive branches represented plenty and drove away ...

The devastating North Sea flood of 1953 caused catastrophic damage and loss of life in Scotland, England, Belgium and The Netherlands and became one of the worst peacetime disasters of the 20th ...