Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
The “little gothic castle" beside the Thames in West London that was built by Horace Walpole in the second half of the 18th century is generally regarded as having sparked the Gothic revival craze of the late 18th and 19th centuries in Britain, including the first Gothic novel.
Alfred is the only English monarch to be known as 'the great'. He served as King of Wessex, a Saxon kingdom based in the southwest of modern-day England, from 871-899 AD. He ruled successfully, emerging as a military force, with his most important achievement being to prevent an island-wide invasion from the Vikings and to establish a united Anglo-Saxon culture.
The Ffestiniog Railway is a narrow-gauge heritage railway in north Wales. It runs from Porthmadog on the coast to the slate mining town of Blaenau Ffestiniog, travelling through forested and mountainous scenery.
The now-ruined village on the island of Hirta, St Kilda, was once the base for a thriving community. It was abandoned in 1930, when more than 2,000 years of human habitation of these remote islands came to an end.
The disease scrofula is not heard of today, but appears in European history, first mentioned by Herodotus in 400 BC. It was also known as the "King's Evil" because many European monarchs claimed to be able to heal the disease by the power of their touch.
Unsinkable Sam (also known as Oskar or Oscar) is the nickname of a ship's cat who purportedly served during World War II with both the Kriegsmarine and the Royal Navy and survived the sinking of three ships.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.