Presented by Sarah Stanfield Lewis Carroll was a paradigm shifter in Victorian Children’s literature, who excited the imaginations of his young readers, and none more so than one Pelham Greville...
The Life of Ken Wood and his Involvement in the Kenwood Company Kenneth Maynard Wood (1916-97) joined the Merchant Navy at 14, traveling the world and learning the importance of teamwork, which set...
Andrew Negus is back by popular demand to give the second part of the Portsmouth story - not that you need to have heard the first one to appreciate Part...
By Dr Ian Friel The talk is about some of the shipwrecks Ian researched as a historian – an English ship from the 1400s, a Dutch vessel from the 1600s,...
By Vivien Morgan ‘Cross-dressed to Kill’ is a book featuring a unique collection of extraordinary stories by twenty women cross-dressers of English, Irish, French, Prussian, Russian, Spanish, American and Israeli nationalities. There...
General Sir David Richards is one of the best-known British generals of modern times. In 2013 he retired after over forty years of service in the British Army and a...
This is the results of a two-year project investigating the time British author PG Wodehouse spent at the Nazi Internment Camp at Tost (now Toszek) in Silesia; it evaluates his...
Andrew picks up the history in 1850 when billions of pounds were being spent to protect the navy and the dockyard was the largest factory complex in the world, employing...