On 24th July 2026 Cambridge Folk Festival brings you Thea Gilmore.

Who was Peeping Tom? Who invented Murphy’s Law? Was the Real McCoy really real? Discover how people's names have taken on new meanings over time.

Graham Palmer's vintage interview with British scifi author Brian Aldiss.

Meet Prof, Mitchell F.O.S., Royston's 'champion smile producer of the twentieth century'. A man who may well have won Britain's Got Talent if he was alive today.

I caught up with Kazuo Ishiguro in 1995. Six years earlier The Remains of the Day had won the Booker prize and it was two years since Merchant Ivory’s adaptation had hit the big screen. He had just pu...

“That’s the way to do it!” Toby, a paper named after Punch’s dog bit back at power – until satire, scandal and love brought it to heel

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Croydon mayor apologises after books were discovered outside a library being cleared by contractors.

Rebecca Young, 12, was recognised for designing a solar-powered backpack with an electric blanket inside.

Lehrer, a Harvard-trained mathematician, wrote darkly humorous songs, often with political connotations.

She was the first British singer to win a Grammy in a jazz category and performed with all the greats.

Graham Palmer talks to Jo Browning Wroe (author of the bestseller, A Terrible Kindness) in the first of his new blog-series 'Book Talk'.

Scheme is part of the government's 10-year plan for the NHS in England aimed at easing pressure on services.

Teenage world darts champion Luke Littler, Love Island’s Georgia Harrison and singer Elaine Paige are also recognised by the King.

In this richly illustrated account, Letchworth Local History Research Group look in detail at the town’s foundation in the early 1900s and the energetic organisation and administration that enabled it to get off the ground quickly and successfully.

Will there be a riot when the 'Reverend Agitator' FH Maberly calls a mass meeting in 1836 to protest against Royston's new Poor Law Workhouse?

Britain is close to bankruptcy. Benefits are being slashed. City centres around Britain are torched. When the ‘Reverend Agitator’ Frederick Herbert ...

Will there be a riot when the 'Reverend Agitator' FH Maberly calls a mass meeting in 1836 to protest against Royston's new Poor Law Workhouse?