Lives on the ocean waves tracing your mariner ancestors before 1914

RESEARCHERS at Findmypast have embarked on a project to recognise and highlight the contributions of an estimated 68 million women who might otherwise go unrecognised historical records. Findmypast fo

This is a history of margins and fringes – not only of the Atlantic Ocean itself, but also of the imaginations of those who worked on its surface and lived at its edges. In his new book, Karl Bell dra

The great naturalist Sir Richard Owen coined the term “dinosaur”, wrote the first scientific descriptions of dinosaurs and was a founder of the first Natural History Museum (NHM) and its first directo

Dear Simon, My daughter, Wendy, and I have enjoyed so many visits to Singapore, and this year we felt it was about time we put our thoughts and experiences down on paper. Sir Stamford Raffles was knig

In addition to mooring bills a fraction of those levied by the honest marina operators of my native South Coast, keeping a boat in the Baltic Sea carries some unexpected benefits. The further in you s

A camping dinghy may not offer the comforts of a modern cabin yacht, but no yacht is comfortable on a hard beat, no matter how many berths she may accommodate in her cabin. And there are serious disad