German Christmas markets are popular in many parts of Europe, and though a modern phenomenon, their tradition goes back to the great Hansa traders

Dec 22, 2011 – Roger Williams

John A. Costello was called to the Irish Bar in 1914, served as Taoiseach twice in the 1940s and 1950s and was still serving as a barrister in 1975.

Dec 13, 2011 – Michael Manning

A newly unearthed cottage in Lancashire, UK, could have been the home to one of the famous Pendle Witches, going by a gruesome find in the walls.

Dec 8, 2011 – Adriane Killy

Charles Dickens' classic "A Christmas Carol" - not his only ghostly tale issued for holiday readers

Dec 7, 2011 – Kathleen Airdrie

Henry VI, one of England's most tragic kings, had schizophrenia, a condition that is still misunderstood. How has the perception of schizophrenia changed?

Dec 6, 2011 – Jennie Gillions

William Fitz Osbern, Isabella de Fortibus, King Charles I all played a part in the history of St Nicholas,, now the Island's war memorial

Dec 6, 2011 – Jan Toms

Following immediately after the First World War, the pandemic of Spanish flu struck in a Britain where social change was already under way.

Dec 3, 2011 – Jennifer Young

How a historical library can be magical, inspirational and relevant in the modern day

Nov 25, 2011 – Sarah Webster

Irish President Michael D. Higgins, a humanitarian, civil rights activist and Irish Labour Party T.D., poet and public speaker, sets out his Irish vision.

Nov 15, 2011 – Michael Manning

The grisly death of Guido 'Guy' Fawkes and what being 'hanged, drawn and quartered' meant for the victims convicted of High Treason during the Middle Ages.

Nov 4, 2011 – Tracey White

King Henry VIII's jousting accidents were the cause of his paranoia and other health problems and the miscarriage of his male child with Anne Boleyn.

Nov 2, 2011 – Tracey White

Jacquetta of Luxembourg, mother of Queen Elizabeth Woodville, survived trial for withchcraft after the execution of her husband and sons for treason.

Nov 2, 2011 – Jennifer Young

Appley Towers, a mock Tudor mansion survived a serious fire plus the dangers of World War Two - but not the 1960s planners.

Nov 1, 2011 – Jan Toms

John Wycliffe was a fourteenth-century scholar whose influence led to the first complete Bible written in the English language

Nov 1, 2011 – Kevin Hughes

Confidant of Queen Ellizabeth, John Dee was mathematician, astrologer, occultist - and royal secret agent

Oct 27, 2011 – Brian Baker

The Irish were characterised by their English colonists as white apes. Benjamin Disraeli's description of the Irish was particularly vitriolic

Oct 25, 2011 – Michael Manning

Office workers bask in the sun, visitors picnic, children play while beneath their feet past generations of Isle of Wighters lie in unmarked graves

Oct 25, 2011 – Jan Toms

The only English King to be called "the Great", Alfred of Wessex became the man to unite England against the Vikings.

Oct 23, 2011 – Sharon Brookshaw

Ship stewardess Violet Jessop survived the Titanic after rescuing a baby and nearly went down with the doomed liner's sister ships

Oct 19, 2011 – Brian Baker

Uneducated and poverty-stricken, Mary Anning risked her life in a thirst for knowledge that astounded the scientists

Oct 17, 2011 – Brian Baker