1+ hour, 9+ min ago  (454+ words) From mental health, exercise and food and drink to the benefits of the great outdoors, medieval people shared many of the same preoccupations we do today. Historian Katherine Harvey reveals more HYGIENE Despite the stereotypes, medieval people were interested in…...

19+ hour, 26+ min ago  (294+ words) Enigma machines were used by the Nazis to encrypt and decrypt secret military, commercial, and diplomatic information. During the war it is believed as many as 50, 000 were manufactured, but following their defeat in 1945 many were destroyed. Experts estimate only around…...

23+ hour, 9+ min ago  (452+ words) Tributes to D-Day hero Alec who has died aged 101 -BY GILES SHELDRICK Chief Reporter A HEROIC Royal Navy veteran who made 10 nerve-racking Arctic Convoy crossings and saw action on D-Day has died aged 101. Alec Penstone was aged 15 when the Second…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago  (392+ words) Notes discovered during refurbishment work at Edinburgh Castle have been returned to their hiding place in the Crown Room, where they were first found almost 150 years apart. Oli Beaton, lead craftsperson, and Andrew Carlberg-Husband, joiner, with the time capsule in…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago  (404+ words) PHOENIX township, marking its 50th anniversary, is a paradox etched into Durban's landscape " scarred by apartheid's cruelty, yet radiant with resilience. A bird's eye view of the Phoenix settlement in the early 1970s. In the foreground is the Phoenix settlement and in…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago  (586+ words) I have just arrived in Tudor London, 1536," a young woman in a green puffer jacket tells the camera. I'm going to check in at my room in the inn, get into the market. Then, later I am meeting the actual…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago  (525+ words) WARWICKSHIRE boasts a moated castle complete with a sunken garden, yet it remains relatively unknown to many. -By ZOE CHAMBERLAIN & RACHEL STRETTON Kenilworth Castle is said to be haunted by several ghosts Maxstoke Castle, located near Coleshill in Warwickshire, was…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago  (406+ words) Artefacts recovered from a trading vessel that sank in Singapore waters more than two centuries ago are part of a new roving exhibition by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA). Visitors looking at a replica of a ship's…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago  (475+ words) From Neolithic wind instruments to an ancient turquoise dragon-shaped artifact, this land has witnessed the evolution of Chinese civilization. The turquoise dragon-shaped artifact discovered at the Erlitou site in Luoyang city, Henan province, is housed at the Chinese Archaeological Museum....

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (295+ words) A NEW parkland pathway could offer fresh views of a tucked-away listed Birmingham treasure if planning permission is granted. -KIRSTY BOSLEY News Reporter An artist's impression of the new community space in the High Street The creation of the so-called…...