Robert the Bruce, more formally known as King Robert I of Scotland, was born on this day, July 11 1274....
England
Thousand of people regularly climb up the 199 steps leading to St. Mary’s Church. Fortunately for them, visitors, locals, tourists...
Three-year-old June Devaney, recovering from pneumonia at Queen’s Park Hospital in Blackburn, England, is kidnapped from her bed on this...
Thomas Blood tried to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London on this day, May 9, 1671. He...
The beautiful England’s Clifton Suspension Bridge, originally designed by the great Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, stands 101 metres above...
Wigan, is an English town west of Manchester, well known for its enthusiastic pie-eating. Whether it is covered in pea-wet...
Among scientists, Thomas Johnson is known as “the father of British field botany”. But, more confidentially, he is celebrated as...
Nagging wives needed to be careful in 19th Century England, for, as Joseph Thompson did, her husband might put her...
We are in England. It is one of the greatest mysteries of Avalon, the legendary island featured in the Arthurian...
November 1st 1666, All Saints Day. The plague takes away its latest victim in the remote village of Eyam, England....
Sir George Gilbert Scott (in Photo), the English architect who designed the Albert Memorial, located in London's Hyde Park, died...
A report on this day, March 26 1726 that a dismembered body had been discovered in London led to what...
Nobody knows what was wrong with Daniel Lambert who was born on this day, March 13 1770. But he went...
Arthur Orton, who became known as the Tichborne Claimant, was found guilty of perjury on this day, February 28, 1874,...
Julia Margaret Cameron (11 June 1815 – 26 January 1879 ) was an English photographer considered one of the most...
American journalist and humorist Calvin Trillin theorized that there is only one fruitcake and that it is simply sent from...
Outside Sydney’s Mitchell Library stands a statue of Matthew Flinders, the celebrated English navigator and cartographer who helped map Australia,...
Christmas pudding, known also Plum pudding, or simply "pud" is a type of pudding traditionally served as end of the...
Yorkshire, a historic county of Northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom, has its a curious variety of...
We are in the wooded Shipley Glen, near the village of Saltaire in the English county of West Yorkshire. Originally...
The Hampton Court hedge maze is the oldest surviving hedge maze in the United Kingdom. It is a multicursal maze,...
Being a nun and living in a convent is one that requires extreme commitment, particularly in the 14th century. For...
There are fairies in the stream that runs through the village of Cottingley in West Yorkshire. It’s true, and there...
The legend of the Green Children originated in the village of Woolpit, in the county of Suffolk, England, in the...
High on the jagged cliffs of England's southwestern coastline lies not only the remains of an abandoned castle but the...
Nestled in a wood, reached only by a small country lane popular with walkers and cyclists, the ruins of Milner...
The imposing ruins of Peveril Castle (also known as Peak Castle or Castleton Castle) rise above the charming village of...
The seaport of Grimsby, along the Lincolnshire coast of England, was once a very attended fishing port, and in the...
In north London, England, in the old suburb of Highgate lies the homonymous cemetery. Here are approximately 170,000 people buried...
Between the late eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth century in England, there was a strange and fascinating custom called wife-selling. Married...
