What if... queen victoria had been assassinated?

One day late in 1939, a small article appeared in our daily newspaper. It was submitted by the government and was an appeal for British women to knit socks for men in the army, which was unable to obt

Some of the projects I was involved with as an Online Parish Clerk for four parishes in southwest Devon involved the transcription of all the baptism, burial and marriage registers and census records

Nearby star deaths may have caused two of our planet’s mass extinctions Exploding stars could have been responsible for ravaging our planet’s atmosphere and causing two mass extinctions. The discovery

KATHERINE COBB is a member of AGRA based in Somerset JAYNE SHRIMPTON is a professional dress historian and portrait specialist ROGER KERSHAW is migration records specialist at The National Archives ST

Just 25 years ago, there seemed to be little new to say about the Vikings – and that was particularly the case for Viking women. The centuries-old consensus was that Viking wives and daughters stayed

Well, not quite – but it’s true that about 80 per cent of our ocean floor remains unexplored and uncharted. Discovering what our ocean depths look like and what life might be found there is just as ch