Beautiful with age

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With lifespans of up to 3,000 years, yews are the oldest living trees in the UK. H

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BBC History Magazine

8 June 2023

The TLS

A house is not a home

The importance of place to James Baldwin

All About History

Anne of cleves

How she turned rejection into lifelong fortune, favour and independence

Fortean Times

King of the strange

hen giving talks on UFOs I’m sometimes asked which single event offers the best evidence for intelligent alien life. Until the recent preprint report from the Planetary Habitability Laboratory conclud

BBC Wildlife Magazine

Birds that break the rules

Many birds have fabulous plumage to attract mates or send warning messages. Some of the colours in their feathers are produced by microscopic structures on the feather surface that absorb and reflect

Best of British

Yesterday remembered

I was enjoying a stroll down the side of the River Avon in the direction of the village of Woodgreen on the edge of the New Forest on the Wiltshire-Hampshire border. We had a long period of dry weathe

History of War

Battle of the nile nelson napoleon

In 1798, Britain’s most celebrated admiral pursued the French across the Mediterranean, attempting to thwart General Bonaparte’s mission to Egypt. The pursuit culminated in what was arguably the most strategically important naval battle of the Napoleonic Wars