Culture UK

During the 1960s when US boffins were involved in some serious research into how to conquer space and deliver a man to the moon, 130 of the finest food scientists in ‘Good Ole Blighty’ were assembled for the Chorleywood Experiment…

The Moffat Ravine Murders: the chilling case of Dr Buck Ruxton and how it lead to great advances in forensic investigation…

A most unusual incident occurred on the night of Sunday 20th October, 1816. The mail coach from Devonport to London was on its regular route when suddenly, a mysterious creature leapt out of the darkness and attacked the team of horses…

Thomas Gareth Thomas was born in Cardiff on 13th July 1936 at 154 Inverness Place, Roath. Gareth’s most powerful childhood memories were of his childhood during the Second World War and the Cardiff Blitz…

London is like an onion with layers and layers of history spanning back 2,000 years, meaning the most surprising buildings, ruins and memorials can often be found in the most unlikely places. And many of these hidden gems turn up in the movies…

Time, as the Hatter in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland knew, is relative. He claimed he was on such good terms with Time that he could live at any time he wanted. Time worked for him, not the other way round. As a genuine eccentric, he would probably also have enjoyed a curious time tradition that continues to the present day. That is, the sounding of a siren at precisely 1pm every day in the city of Sheffield in Yorkshire…

Legend tells of young John Lambton, fishing in the River Wear on a Sunday. Catching no fish, he cursed the river – and immediately hooked a strange worm-like creature…

One dark November evening in 1963, an unlikely form of time travel was revealed to the British public. The time-travelling Doctor Who had arrived on Planet Earth’s TV screens, and his intergalactic machine of choice was, of all things, a common-or-garden police telephone box…