Fairies, folklore and forteana

CARMINE ‘THE SNAKE’ PERSICO WAS A GANGSTER’S GANGSTER: A STONE-COLD KILLER WHO MAINTAINED HIS POSITION AS BOSS OF NYC’S COLOMBO CRIME FAMILY DESPITE BEING SENTENCED TO 139 YEARS IN PRISON IN THE 1980S

For nine days the heroic 1st Airborne fought desperately, waiting vainly for relief that never came

Inside an unassuming building, behind a damp car park in Antwerp, Belgium, scientists are teaching two spacecraft to be dance partners for a performance that will take place in front of the Sun. It’s

Alice Diamond’s shoplifting gang descended on London’s West End stores “like a plague of locusts” – and made themselves a fortune While the Peaky Blinders, Brigton Billy Boys and Charles Sabini’s mob

When I was starting my third book about my work on the Endangered Alphabets Project – work that involves finding, researching, promoting and carving the world’s 300+ minority scripts – I found myself

Were the seeds of Civil War already written into the American Constitution?