Aleister Crowley - Master of the Dark Arts Radio 4/BBC Sounds, 8pm Anyone who’s ever had even a passing interest in the ...

Go back just over 150 years, and you find the person at the front and centre of one of the world's biggest drug empires wasn't a cartel or street thugs in South America but a queen.

As a child, Queen Victoria was restricted to a diet that included bread with milk and plain roast mutton. When she was crowned queen in 1837, she made up for lost time and ate whatever she pleased, ...

Victoria began her reign in 1837, at the age of 18, and ruled until her death in 1901. Her time as monarch was marked as Britain’s great age of industrialization, economic development, and imperial ...

If you’re in need of describing a prudish person with antiquated ideas, Victorian makes for a handy moniker. Its namesake queen embodied the term—a woman of virtuous morality whose enduring image is ...

It’s the heart of many a fairy tale — a young woman rising from humble beginnings to a life of luxury in a grand palace. But Marie Downing was Cinderella in reverse — leaving the opulence of Queen ...

It said the Victorian pool "is comparable with both UK and local listed sea-water bathing pools", including the Havre des Pas ...