1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (699+ words) They say that on the quays, balconies and rooftops of Copenhagen, thousands watched the British fleet move in for the kill at 9.45 am on April 2, 1801. The Battle of Copenhagen and the heroic efforts of the Danish fleet, led by a…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (658+ words) The Game of Thrones actor Iain Glen is the enthusiastic narrator in this chart-topping podcast with lavish sound effects and the occasional input from an expert Real Vikings brought back my childhood history obsession The Game of Thrones actor Iain…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago  (392+ words) Disappointed tourists are being turned away from the "I love you" wall, a popular art installation in Montmartre that is threatened with collapse after millions of visits by romance-minded visitors. The local council has built barriers and shored up part…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago  (307+ words) In'A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole's novel about the misadventures of the slovenly medieval history obsessive Ignatius J Reilly, a downtrodden black janitor wonders what he can do "to stop bein' vagran' or employ below the minimal wage. Reilly's…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (263+ words) The 2004 film'Sideways'did more for the reputation of pinot noir'reds than any wine critic. Its wine-obsessed protagonist described their flavours as "the most haunting and brilliant and subtle and ancient on the planet, sending global sales surging overnight. Winemakers describe pinot…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (446+ words) For more than four millennia, the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Khufu's boats lay buried beside the Great Pyramid, entombed in the limestone sands of Giza to ferry him across the celestial Nile." Rediscovered in 1954, the first boat was reconstructed in private…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (534+ words) A withering letter by Howard Carter celebrating the death of the man who invented the "Curse of Tutankhamun" has been uncovered. The discovery of the pharaoh's tomb in 1922 was one of the scoops of the century for The Times and…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (1517+ words) The codewords issued by the IRA for each call followed a pattern: Arkle, Mill House, Red Rum, Golden Miller.Like Shergar, they were all racehorses, all champions " right up until the last one: King Neptune. To this day, questions remain…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (1043+ words) A kilometre below the sea bed off the Cumbrian coast, an underground repository the size of Swindon could become the final resting place for Britain's stockpile of nuclear waste. The aim is to create a safe place to store hundreds…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (59+ words) We mixed modern and medieval skills cleaning Canterbury Cathedral's gate'The Times We mixed modern and medieval skills cleaning Canterbury Cathedral's gate A team of stonemasons spent ten years cleaning centuries of grime from Christ Church Gate, using lasers to reveal…...