Fairy origins

From a distance, Almscliffe Crag in Wharfedale looks like a ruined citadel: a jagged spine of millstone grit rising between Leeds and Harrogate. Today it draws climbers and sightseers. But in the year

Folklore expert Willow Winsham explains the history behind the mystery of this fearsome witch from Slavic legend

Pluckley is a small English village located on the northern edge of the Kentish Weald between Maidstone and Ashford. It was an Anglo-Saxon settlement, boasts a 14th century church, and found fame in t

It all used to be so simple. The story of how we – that is Homo sapiens, today’s humans – emerged from Africa and spread across what’s become Europe and Asia was a neat, straightforward narrative. It

Nestling in wonderful beech woodland in the grounds of the magnificent St Fagans Castle and gardens just to the west of Cardiff, St Fagans National Museum of History 1 was an ideal location for Brian

It was two very serious illnesses which struck her only a year apart that made Debbie Palmer decide to have more fun in her life. Thinking back to her childhood digging around in her granny’s garden t