Who?   When I write a history story I have to decide when the action is going to take place – and also where to set it. I also have to dec...

Like the post on William Shakespeare, Part 1 - Stratford, this week's Time Tunnellers post will offer another interactive and fun ...

Haworth 1847. When Mother and her beloved twin brothers are taken by the Haworth ‘miasma’, to keep her family from the workhouse, Kate, 15...

Bob Johns paused on the stairs and cocked his head to one side. He could hear his father’s snores. He smiled to himself and stepped carefull...

Much has been written about Shakespeare's Stratford-upon-Avon. This week's Time Tunnellers post will instead offer an interactiv...

My grandad – born into a working-class family in late Victorian England – led an eventful life. Sadly, I never got to hear about it first-ha...

  Mobile phones, FaceTime, WhatsApp, social media… It’s hard to imagine the world without instant communications, but if you ask any older p...

On Thursday 18th May 1536, a queen sat alone in a room in the Tower of London, waiting for her death. Outside, on Tower Green, a scaffold st...