England’s forgotten hero

I had watched Richard III meet a bloody end at Bosworth, come face to face with a plague victim, stood in the shadow of a mighty trebuchet, and been put on trial for my life. And it was barely lunchti

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If she had given the monarch a male heir, the crowns of England and Scotland might never have been united

On a beautiful summer’s morning almost 110 years ago, men of the British Army stepped out into no-man’s land at 7.30am. It was 1 July 1916, and the start of what was then called ‘The Big Push’. With h

John Constable painted Salisbury Cathedral and Leadenhall from ...