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For those of us who were brought up on inspiring Ladybird books about the great lives of Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Walter Raleigh and Admiral Nelson, and who despair at the way today’s children are being taught to despise their own history,…

 Assassins And Secret Listeners by Alistair Moffat (Birlinn £20, 304pp) is available now from the Mail Bookshop By KATHRYN HUGHES Published: 04:30 EDT, 18 October 2026 | Updated: 12:24 EDT, 18 October 2026 <!--…

Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall, used to recount how, when she told people she was writing a novel about Thomas Cromwell, they would shoot back, ‘don’t you mean Oliver Cromwell?’ The two men often get confused and sometimes even…

By GEOFFREY WANSELL Published: 05:00 EDT, 21 August 2026 | Updated: 05:52 EDT, 21 August 2026 <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- The British…

 In the company of sheep by Polly Pullar (Birlinn £12.99 258pp)By CONSTANCE CRAIG SMITH Published: 12:00 EDT, 20 August 2026 | Updated: 12:04 EDT, 20 August 2026 <!-- --> <!--…

By ED HOLT Published: 19:43 EDT, 15 May 2026 | Updated: 19:54 EDT, 15 May 2026 <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- From Hadrian's Wall to the…

A British Airways passenger assaulted an American woman during a transatlantic flight after he was caught using a vape which 'smelled of weed' in the toilet.Louis Gaston, 31, shoved fellow passenger Laurel Dillon into her seat so hard…

The father of a British toddler who vanished in Germany in 1981 has condemned the 'scammer' who claims to be her. Richard Lee's daughter Katrice vanished on her second birthday more than four decades ago during a shopping trip with her…

By SOPHIA STANFORD, NEWS REPORTER Published: 13:18 EDT, 22 April 2026 | Updated: 19:09 EDT, 22 April 2026 <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- --> <!-- A…

Gold has fascinated humans for thousands of years. The Inca people of South America believed it fell to Earth as the tears of the sun god (while silver fell as the tears of the moon goddess). President Batista, who ruled Cuba until he…