Gin, witches, regicide, boats, nudists, an Egyptian curse, Spitfires, the invention of windsurfing and more writers and vineyards than you can shake a fishing rod at: this beloved English county has it all. Here are 13 stories you may never have heard about Hampshire

On a muggy night in late August 1940, Hinnerk Waller’s fraying tether had finally snapped. Relentlessly deployed in the Battle of Britain as part of the Luftwaffe fighter wing JG 52, Waller was paying

It would be easy to get confused, at a quick glance. But although it sports the same number of funnels, the sinking transatlantic liner depicted here isn’t RMS Titanic but RMS Lusitania, it’s 1915 rat

During the early days Operation Barbarossa, Army Group Centre’s rapid advance surrounded hundreds of thousands of Red Army soldiers in the Białystok-Minsk area. What ensued was a catastrophic defeat for the Soviet defenders

The Zulu St Vincent and the Lochfyne skiff Clan Gordon are sailing again thanks to the Tanera Mor Restoration Project, as Mike Smylie reports

Crew training and a delivery trip provide an exhilarating start to the sailing season