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Uncover the secrets of the Viking pantheon and ...

Stunning scenery, fascinating history and plenty of cinnamon buns – a Viking cruise of Scandinavia was definitely a trip to remember

July’s magazine featured a review of Max Hastings’s book Sword: D-Day Trial by Battle, alongside an iconic photograph of British troops. That image has featured so many times in articles and TV shows

Horses were involved in King Harold’s defeat at Hastings – but also in the demise of his Norman conqueror It’s one of the most famous of all medieval images. Harold II stands upon the battlefield at H

Though his name became a byword for treason, this Norwegian Nazi collaborator maintained his innocence right to the end

“There are too many women traveling luxuriously in ‘Darkest Africa’. Eskimos of Disco, Greenland, are publishing a newspaper,” Charles Fort wrote in New Lands. So I checked whether there were still ne