In the Summer of 1972, 14-year-old Judith Roberts took off for a bike ride within the vicinity of her Staffordshire home. Her ...

Witchcraft? The word sends shivers down the spines of many of us, especially when the dark fingers of winter night begin to creep around the corners of the house, when the wind howls and shadows ...

Propaganda when used effectively can create a myth of great potency, but to have a lasting effect it has to be based on truth. Fakes always disappoint when found out. In the Great War the myth of the ...

I’ve collected three stories about underworld women from my new book, British Gangs, to share with you this Halloween season. I really enjoyed uncovering their stories, less well-known than the lives ...

Halloween Ghosts and Halloween Crimes! There are notorious tales of the supernatural undead preying on unsuspecting innocent victims at Halloween. Ghostly tales flood the media at this time of year, ...

On 11th July 2013 I sent a Freedom Of Information Request (FOI) to Staffordshire Police. Could I have a copy of the Pathologist Report concerning Judith Roberts murder 7.6.1972 and a copy of the ...

On October 11, 2024, National Geographic Magazine reported on the most momentous news in the history of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine, since the discovery of Mallory’s body in 1999. Sometime during ...

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The dinosaurs are a source of endless fascination, and each new generation is inspired and enchanted by images of these wondrous and awe-inspiring creatures that dominated the Earth eons of time ago.

This is the story of how the luxurious steam yachts of the Victorian and Edwardian eras were transformed into weapons of war. These beautiful vessels were the ultimate status symbols of British and ...

The orphaned Philadelphia Austen was forced to seek for herself those objects of eighteenth-century womanhood: social esteem and financial independence. Her story is circumscribed by the limitations ...