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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.
CultureEdd Kimber’s nanna’s gingerbread recipeThe Great British Bake Off’s first winner shares a northern treat her nanna's very own gingerbread recipe.
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.
TravelVisitors still leave dolls for the ghost of a girl under Edinburgh’s Royal MileWith Halloween under three weeks away, Auld Reekie offers a headless drummer at the castle, a prison site locals still spit on and a buried street you can only see by tour.
TravelChristopher Wren studied astronomy and then rebuilt London after it burned downChristopher Wren, born 394 years ago next Tuesday, had studied science and astronomy rather than architecture when he was handed 51 churches and a cathedral to build.
TravelOld Burghley House has 115 rooms and a roof that covers three quarters of an acreWilliam Cecil’s house holds 115 rooms under three quarters of an acre of roof, and the public circuit alone runs to more than a quarter of a mile.
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.