Shrovetide football is an ancient, rough and chaotic ball game played on Shrove Tuesday, involving two rival teams of local ...

A powerhouse of intellectual enlightenment and a champion of modernity, Queen Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach was a ...

The Calcutta Cup is the trophy presented to the winner of the England versus Scotland rugby union match which takes place during the annual Six Nations Championship – also currently known as the ...

Robert Watson-Watt was born on April 13th 1892 in Brechin, Angus. He was therefore, a contemporary of many other renowned Scottish scientists, engineers and inventors, those such as: Baron Kelvin, ...

Join us for our biggest weekend of the year! Explore living history encampments and watch military displays. There will also be performances by musicians and dancers, as well as traditional crafts.

There are plenty of famous and historic places in Britain. But history can also be quiet, local, and forgotten to all but a few – and the exaggerated, mythologised tales of early saints are one of the ...

Mention the Great Train Robbery and everyone assumes that you mean the one in 1963, when a group of robbers including Ronnie Biggs, held up the Glasgow to London mail train. However there was another ...

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Welcome to Historic UK’s Living History Events Diary! One of the most enjoyable ways to experience history first hand is to attend one of the many Living History re-enactments taking place this year.

The last Sunday before Advent is ‘Stir-up Sunday’, the day when traditionally families gather together to prepare the Christmas pudding. This year that will be Sunday 23rd November 2025. The day does ...

Pancake Day, or Shrove Tuesday, is the traditional feast day before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday. Lent – the 40 days leading up to Easter – was traditionally a time of fasting and on Shrove ...