However, in 1925, she went missing on a routine mission in the English Channel and the crew of ... lead shot and anchors have survived. Oliver Cromwell sent a fleet of six vessels to finally ...

King Alfred was chosen as the subject as the purported founder of the British Navy, though there are other contenders for the title, including Henry VIII, Good Queen Bess (the pirates’ patron), ...

You can email your suggestions of candidates to be profiled and other suggestions to history@ ... and English statesman Oliver Cromwell, the brothers would establish five plantations along what ...

There have been many dictators in history, and a few have been considered somewhat benevolent, others total despots. If you ...

Residents of the historic Cromwell House Care Home, birthplace of Oliver Cromwell ... and sparks memories of what they were taught in history classes and their own life growing up in and around ...

Were the monks on drugs? How The Book of Kells went fully psychedelic Spirited to Ireland to save it from the Vikings, this wild illumination of the New Testament, full of gilded curls and coils, is ...

There is a tale to tell on practically every corner – some requiring a bit of imagination to believe and others passed down in history books ... by the site where Oliver Cromwell's head found ...

Michael Palin is to talk about a long-lost precursor to Monty Python that was finally unearthed last year He wrote and starred in six episodes of The Complete and Utter History of Britain ... titled ...

Oliver Cromwell is a highly controversial figure, not least because he banned Christmas (fun sponge alert). Our guests Kerry Godliman, Helen Bauer and Glenn Moore evaluate his powerful reign ...

St Andrew’s church in Northborough – the location of the burial of Oliver Cromwell’s wife, Elizabeth, as well Martha, the wife of poet John Clare – ‘is becoming a health hazard ...

A controversial figure to many Cromwell had a large impact on the history of Britain. Initally this was as a Leader in the Parliamentarian 'New Model Army' that defeated the Royalists during the ...