For many, the name Keynes is likely to be associated more with Milton, rather than John. Whilst Milton Keynes has … More

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There are many reasons why people steal. Economic need is an obvious one; victim of fate’s cruel hand casting one … More

Adam Worth was a naughty man. He got a taste for being a naughty man as a bounty hunter during … More

In 1842 George Holyoake became the last person to be convicted of blasphemy after giving a steamy lecture at the … More

It would be a waste to gently knead such an delicious topic as the Pantheon, without dipping a cut of … More

Now there is nothing wrong with Uppsala Cathedral, where the remains of Carl Linnaeus now lie. It’s a grand old … More

Published in 1753, the Species Planatarum was the first botanical work to consistently use the binomial nomenclature – a two … More

The fourth editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, and the man responsible for Su-Sz, Wh-Wo and the glossy pink lipstick … More

Look up spaniels in a leather-bound dictionary and the general gist will be about a dog with long ears and … More