Richard Flanagan's Question 7 is this year's winner of the @BGPrize. In her review from our June issue, @rosalyster delves into Tasmania, nuclear physics, romance and Chekhov.

Gore is an “expat,” someone plucked from the past who relies on a “bridge,” a civil servant with the titular Ministry who ...

It seems likely to have been worn by a Parliamentarian in the English Civil War as the accompanying armour bears a Tower Armouries mark. This indicates the helmet was made in London which was the ...

Mary Haddock's 17th-century tomb in Leigh-on-Sea has been officially protected as a historic site, celebrated for its connection to the Tintin comics. A 17th-century English tomb linked to the ...

In October, a member of the Reddit community r/meth, an online hub for methamphetamine enthusiasts, went viral for a series ...

So, the Government plans to concrete over the Home Counties, including the Green Belt, to solve the housing crisis.

There has been nothing in English historical writing over recent decades to match the intensity of interest in the civil wars of the mid-seventeenth century. The foundations were laid a century ...

A PRIZED coin collection with some of the rarest examples of hammered gold in British history has sold for £1.1million. A Charles I piece from 1643 was the top item, going for £222,000. It was ...

Dartmoor national park is 368 miles of beautiful English ... phases of the war, the Parliamentarians expected to retain Charles as king, but with expanded powers for Parliament. Though the Royalists ...

A 17th-century English tomb linked to the beloved Tintin ... Historic England classed the 1960s building as a "striking example of post-war church architecture". A former bungalow-style maternity ...

Once one of the most popular cakes around, fruitcake, a dense bread-like cake studded with candied fruits, has become a ...