Stephen Roberts

Stephen Roberts reflects on award wins, rising demand and the 2026 strategy for North Devon Hospice

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

Truro’s Henry Martyn was a man whose religious dedication led to his death aged just 31

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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