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Buckingham Palace18th October, 2023The King this afternoon attended a Reception for African Business Leaders, convened by The Prince’s Trust International, at t

Well before taking the world stage as wartime British prime minister, First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill was an early and key proponent of tanks.

In July 1915, a prototype for the tank was developed, which took the body of an armored car and slapped it on top of a Killen-Strait agricultural tractor.

ANYONE who's ever wanted to visit Athens but simply hasn't had the chance might want to consider a trip to the North East instead.While it may not hav

The conversion of the Old War Office into a high-end hotel brings fresh insight into the world the great Prime Minister inhabited

David Grann's latest book The Wager, A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder tells the story of the disastrous voyage of the 28-gun frigate The Wager across the Atlantic and round Cape Horn as part of a Royal Navy flotilla to attack Spanish shipping in the Pacific during the War of Jenkin's Ear. It is a dramatic change from his previous book Killers of the Flower Moon, set in the rolling hills and open prairie of Osage County that runs north from Tulsa, Oklahoma and dealing with the mur...

Theater at Monmouth opened William Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” as part of their Brave New Worlds Season on July 27. Welcome to Arden. This is the story of Rosalind. Oppressed and exiled from Court under threat of death, she escapes with her cousin into the wild and unpredictable Forest of Arden. Disguised as a […]

Lady Laura Ridding (1849-1939) author and committed suffragist was an advocate for women’s educational, employment and political rights.

Fears of a return to WWI's trench warfare led to the invention, extensive development, and ultimate discarding of a tank that dug its own trench.

Winston Churchill went from warmonger to peacemaker and learned from Irish icon Michael Collins never to bend to a tyrant. Upon Collins’s death, Churchill wrote: “He was an Irish patriot, true and fearless..."