History
HistoryNeil Armstrong walked on the Moon and then coughed his way through Buckingham PalaceThe first man on the Moon faced Buckingham Palace in 1969 with a streaming head cold, and the handshake went badly wrong.
HistoryWinston Churchill gives his famous speech “The Few” in the House of Commons"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
HistoryRosslyn Chapel was begun 580 years ago and the carvers never finished the jobFive centuries of folklore have gathered around a small unfinished church seven miles south of Edinburgh, and Dan Brown only added to the pile.
HistoryFlowers still arrive at the spot where England’s last Saxon king fell in 1066Wednesday marks 960 years since the Battle of Hastings, the single October day that swept away Anglo
-Saxon rule and remade England in Norman stone.
HistoryDrake’s drum hangs in a Devon house and is said to beat when England is in dangerRaleigh’s scaffold pipe, Livingstone’s red shirt and a full size replica of the ship John Cabot sailed to Newfoundland are all sitting somewhere in Britain waiting to be visited.
HistoryQueen Victoria kept Albert’s watch beside her in bed for 40 years and it is still thereThe Isle of Wight villa the royal couple built with their own money has been left exactly as it stood on the January morning in 1901 when the Queen died in it.
HistoryBletchley Park’s 10,000 codebreakers signed the Official Secrets Act and not one talkedRuth Bourne was 18 when the Navy sent her to a windowless room full of Bombe machines and told her never to ask what the work meant.
HistoryThe city marking America’s 250th was planned by a Quaker England kept jailingWilliam Penn was fined, imprisoned and put on trial for his beliefs in London before King Charles II handed him the land that became Pennsylvania in 1681.
HistoryAutumn is the season to walk Edinburgh, from Castle Rock down to HolyroodWith the festival crowds gone and Auld Reekie settling into its quieter months, Scotland's capital rewards anyone willing to climb its hills on foot.
HistoryIncredible Prince Albert facts you’ve probably never heard ofThe prince consort was also the queen's first cousin, and he went on to wield the power of a king without ever holding the title.