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Morris dancers, a quintessentially English tradition (Image: In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images) A sun-dappled village fair. Children gaily spinning around a maypole. Cricketers on the village green. Few things evoke the splendour and tradition of an English summer so perfectly. And then come the Morris dancers, a quintessentially English …

Inside story of real-life spy who discovered Holocaust – but went completely ignored (Image: Getty) Yet Winthrop Pickard Bell’s claims largely fell on deaf ears and a genuine opportunity to avert global calamity was missed, a new book claims. “Winthrop was the first who left a publishing trail warning about …

Keanu Reeves has just announced he will be expanding the universe of his graphic novel, BZRKR, with his first-ever novel. The Book Of Elsewhere will continue the story the Hollywood actor began back in 2021, which went on to become a number-one best-selling debut of a new comic property in …

Tree Wisdom: a guide to nature’s restorative energy and wellbeing (Image: Getty) The UK itself is home to 123 million of them and has many historic giants, like the 1,000-year-old Allerton Oak in Liverpool. Sadly, over the last century, Britain has lost 50 per cent of its ancient woodland – …

Clooney’s ‘Boys In The Boat’ misses British Olympic triumph (Image: Getty) Exclusive – It’s the Chariots of Fire-style true story of a scrappy working class team of rowers from Washington state who beat posh and privileged Ivy League university rivals to qualify for the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where they overcame …

The extent of his efforts has never been recognised (Image: Getty) Amid the deepening horror of March 1939, as Europe stood on the precipice of a Second World War, it was no wonder the arrival in Britain of 20 Jewish children by aeroplane from the Czech capital Prague should pass …

This article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on any sales we generate from it. Learn more Moshe and his best friend Shani Itzcovitz 2020 (Image: Ad Lib) In January 1945, with the evacuation of the Auschwitz camps, several hundred children and adolescents aged six to sixteen arrived …

As 2024 dawns so do 13 years since George RR Martin published a book in his A Song of Ice and Fire series. Since A Dance with Dragons hit shelves in 2011, the Game of Thrones TV show has come and gone with the showrunners being forced to rely on …

This year James Bond fans celebrated the 70th anniversary of Ian Fleming’s original 007 novels.  Yet the author famously only wrote 12 novels and two collections of short stories about his MI6 spy. In the almost 60 years since his death, there have been over 50 post-Fleming Bond adventures aside …

Hatton Garden: Ring leader behind heist jailed for 10 years Journalists should probably always contact the police when seeking a criminal case update. Well, in most cases, perhaps. Let me explain. Over the years, my insider information about underworld bosses and absconding fugitives has earned me respect, possibly grudgingly, from …