The earl of essex takes a desperate step

It was the summer of 1066 and two powerful leaders were rallying their supporters behind them and preparing for war. Their clash would result in political chaos, the spilling of much blood, and one of

KATIE HINDMARCH-WATSON describes a sex scandal that consumed Queen Victoria’s grandson On 7 July 1889, a policeman arrested a sometime telegraph boy, Henry Newlove, at his mother’s house in Camden Tow

The article on the battle against U-boats in the Second World War in the November issue omitted perhaps the most important episode. That was the part played by the late Joe Baker-Cresswell of Bamburgh

The history of the aristocracy is intertwined with the fascinating history of hunting, Eleanor Doughty discovered while researching her most recent book

The age of noblesse oblige may have passed, but the aristocracy continues to play an important role in shaping and preserving life in the countryside, says Eleanor Doughty

Gunfire erupted just after first light. Police officers had hurled pebbles at the shuttered windows of 100 Sidney Street in London’s East End, aiming to rouse the men they knew were inside, and to ind