In his latest book, Peter Kirkpatrick retrieves from Australian cultural history the compelling figure of the “ wild reciter ...

Historian Helen McCarthy helps us make sense of our recent past. She infuses her subjects – from working mothers to modern ...

It was a "murder mystery" that gripped Swansea - the death of a "respectable" young woman who worked as a live-in maid for a ...

Fleming made major scientific discoveries and belonged to the Harvard Computers, a team of women who processed astronomical ...

From slum clearances to orphanages and onion fares - life is very different in Birmingham compared to the 1800s, but there ...