After finding a two volume set of Thomas Bewick’s British Birds, I also discovered a copy of his General History of Quadrupeds from 1824 in the Spitalfields Market and I turned first to his entry upon ...

Preston Orpheus Choir A Preston choir will perform Brahms' Requiem - 95 years on from its first-ever performance of the composition. Spokesperson Mick Ga ...

"You see, if Jill ever has a brain operation, it'll cost fourpence. And that'll include search fees." Fresh faces join the panel, as Mike Newman, Samantha Fox and Simon Bates make their debuts, while ...

Victorian society believed that the inhabitants of fourpence-a-night lodging houses were necessarily of low moral character. Rubenhold says of the second victim, ‘the authorities began their inquiry ...