1+ week, 5+ day ago   (929+ words) findings with the BBC. He believed that the Neolithic stone circle was built to predict eclipses. In the BBC...the dawn light at Stonehenge… between the great stone archways. I felt that my view was controlled, confined....plotting the positions…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (616+ words) Arrows" were moved 18km (11 miles) across Yorkshire by Stone Age people, new research has found. The three columns...the university researchers which identified the stone as coming from Brimham - where the giant rock formations...people who erected the monuments bypassed more…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (548+ words) On 25 April 1641, Ambrose Barlow celebrated a secret Easter Sunday mass at Morleys Hall near Astley in Greater Manchester. King Charles I wanted to prove that he supported the Protestant faith while keeping his political enemies at bay as parliament were…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (303+ words) In 1985, reports of a moving statue of the Virgin Mary drew thousands of people to the village of Ballinspittle in County Cork, Ireland. Helen Ledwick speaks to Ita Dungan, who travelled there as a teenager and remembers the crowds gathering…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (255+ words) Radio 4 is marking the arrival of the Bayeux Tapestry in Britain with a day of programmes on the Norman Conquest and its lasting legacy today. George Parker, political editor of the Financial Times, was first captivated by the tapestry as…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (364+ words) A memorial has been unveiled to a much-loved RAF fighter pilot who died when his aircraft crashed during a snowstorm in Scotland. Flying Officer Andrew Crowther, 25, was taking part in an exercise over Lossiemouth on 18 November 1981 when tragedy struck. On…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (183+ words) Captain James Martin Stagg, the chief meteorological adviser who persuaded US General Eisenhower to change the date of D-Day, spoke to Richard Dimbleby in 1964. The Allied invasion was moved from the 5th to the 6th of June, due to Stagg's advice. The…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (469+ words) Tributes have been paid to World War Two veteran Norman Irwin, from Coleraine, who has died at the age of 107. The death of Norman Irwin was announced by his family on Thursday. Norman Irwin, who was born in 1918 and was…...

18+ hour, 45+ min ago   (1045+ words) using that beck to transport food and drink and stone." Fragments of the abbey remain, including...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (549+ words) A statue of an Army general who upheld slavery will be left without a sword when it is returned to public viewing in Glasgow. Returning the weapon to the restored Sir John Moore monument in the city's George Square would…...