In 1934 a book was published concerning rumours that a privately printed first edition of Mrs Browning's "Sonnets from the Portugue...

On Sunday 9 March 1828, the Greenock bank in Glasgow was robbed. The method was very sophisticated, and the gang must have spent many months...

On New Year's Day 1890, a maid living at 31 Linden Gardens, Chiswick, London returned from a trip to Scotland to find her mistress, Marg...

Recently I've been interested in "twin years": years which have identical dates. For example, you could use a calendar for 201...

While looking through an archive of some old local newspapers, I came across this small news item in the Bristol Mercury for October 10th 18...