It’s likely you may have seen a pub or something else called the Royal Oak, and not given it much thought. But do you know that there rea...

Samuel Pepys began the New Year of 1661 by writing in the diary that he had started on the first day of the momentous year of 1660, summing ...

Gillian Bagwell is the author of the upcoming novel The Darling Strumpet, based on the life of Nell Gwynn, who rose from the streets to bec...