In 1666 a devastating fire swept through London, destroying 13,200 houses and leaving an estimated 100,000 people homeless.

Sheerness in Kent seems like any other seaside town but, unbeknown to many, it is just 1.5miles away from a shipwreck that is ...

One of the few Grade I listed buildings in the area provides a historic insight into English writer and politician Samuel ...

Boswell’s and Pepys’s periodic bursts of lechery and panic; Chips Channon’s unrealistic dreams of political greatness ...

1981: Israel shocks the world by destroying the Osirak nuclear plant near the Iraqi capital Baghdad for fear it would be used to make atomic bombs. On the same day, Bjorn Borg wins his 11th and final ...

The new art gallery on the Promenade Deck is filled with artworks that were spread around the ship and sometimes missed or ignored by visitors.

She used Highgate Society maps, flyers and posters to create a costume that dressed an antique mannequin as Nell Gwyn, an actress who became the mistress of King Charles II and was called "pretty, ...

The Sony Bravia 8 II OLED TV, coming in 55- and 65-inch sizes, could be this year's OLED TV to beat thanks to impressive HDR performance based on my first impressions. Why you can trust Tom's ...

The newly-found mastaba was for a royal doctor who lived during the reign of Pepy II (c.2278-2184 BC), the last king of the Sixth Dynasty in Egypt's Old Kingdom. Mohamed Ismail Khaled, secretary ...

irresponsibility and chaos that marked the Navy of Charles II. Luckily he had Charles on his side. When the Lord High Admiral resigned, no successor was appointed, and Pepys became Secretary.

The motive of the present example is so exactly repeated in the alabaster figurine of Pepy II., found last year at Saqqara, that it would suggest an identity of date, if it were not that there is ...