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I was sat on a train a couple of weeks ago, on my way to see Arcade Fire with a group of friends, when…
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Picture the scene. It is a lovely spring afternoon and you are walking down 5th Avenue; when a gentleman with a severely waxed mustache…
The V&A always deliver in their fashion exhibitions and they have done it again with a sumptuous panorama display of wedding dresses spanning the…
To commemorate the centenary of WW1 we are running a series of three posts from our recent trip to the WW1 sites of Nord…
World War II, one of the biggest conflicts the world has ever seen, impacted most people around the world on a daily basis. While…
Imagine you are a traveller in Jane Austen’s day. Unless you own a carriage, you’ll travel by stage- or mail-coach, post-chaise or hired horse,…
On the 12th September 1885 a new football record was set. Dundee Harps beat Aberdeen Rovers 35 – 0 in the newly formed Scottish…
My favourite place in the whole wide world, has to be the Isle of Wight. I love the beaches, the rolling green hills and…
Most people in the United States are aware of abolitionist and civil rights activist Frederick Douglass, but few have heard of him in Britain….
The history of Papal elections is full of intrigue, plotting, bribery and in some rare instances, holiness. By the mid-fifteenth century the form for…
We all like to make ourselves look good and the Georgians were no exceptions. During the reign of the George’s, hair got bigger, dresses…
When Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt in 1798, he was accompanied by 167 scholars, his Commission on the Sciences and Arts. Their work revealed a…
Jenny Porrett, employee at Arundel Castle, West Sussex, gives us an exclusive insight into life behind castle walls… I don’t start work at the Castle…