Work has started on a new student accommodation complex at Hackney Wick in a converted piano works that made instruments for kings and the ...

Despite losing the fortune they had built over generations, Antony's grandparents and father managed to escape Germany in ...

Published 75 years ago, "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" tells the story of four children who are evacuated from London ...

After a break from music, the cult New York musician behind the smash ‘1950’ has returned with an album that is grittier and ...

Elizabeth Taylor's love life was the stuff of legend—and lyrics, Taylor Swift drawing inspiration from how the much-married ...

The Indigenous leader on the threats to his Kayapó tribe, why ancestral knowledge matters — and the meaning behind his ...

All the reaction and your views as England boss Thomas Tuchel expresses frustration with the 'silent' Wembley crowd during ...

Dame Patricia Routledge was best known for her role in Keeping Up Appearances but also had a long career on stage.

While Network Rail and the National Rail Museum celebrate the 200th anniversary of the modern railway, the last county in England to get railways is celebrating an anniversary of its own. This year ...

Martin Pitt continues his series on the history of coal, looking at coal gas, balloons and the fuels that lit the world ...

During the Second World War the government introduced compulsory ID cards as part of their emergency measures. It was not ...

Built in 1920, the airport was especially pertinent during World War II, before it was bombed in 1940 in one of the first ...