Stephen Roberts

Ropley-born historian Samuel Rawson Gardiner made the 17th century his life’s work, fitting perhaps for a descendant of Oliver Cromwell

Stephen Roberts remembers the novelist, dramatist, screenwriter and diarist whose own dramatic times were recorded in words and on screen

Social Sharing How about this for a title? Senator Yvonne Jones. Senator Sarah Leo.

Elias Ashmole was a esoteric scholar, alchemy dabbler and the visionary whose bequest founded the Ashmolean Museum

Novelist Henry Fielding was most famous for his novel Tom Jones but also founded London’s Bow Street Runners, forerunner of today’s Metropolitan…

Stephen Roberts looks back on the life of the Macclesfield diva, once feted as an international opera singer but whose brief fame is now largely…

Sir Christopher Cockerell’s hovercraft invention reshaped engineering, travel and Britain’s maritime story forever

Burt Kwouk, or Herbert Tsangtse Kwouk was born in Warrington and went on to gain fame in the Pink Panther films

Sir Arthur Evans, the man who unearthed the lost world of the Minoans

As Cowes Week turns 200, the annual regatta continues to draw thousands to the Solent for unrivalled racing, rich heritage and a summer celebration…