Great Britain’s airship programme crashed and burned with the ill-fated R101, but others would be slow to learn the lesson.…
During the early 20th century the first flying machines - hot air balloons used from the 1780s - were developed…
It was the ultimate stroke of bad luck, or bad seamanship. Sailors who survived the dangers of life on the…
As World War I raged all sorts of unglamorous participants played a part in sustaining global conflict. One such was…
It must be the most famous shipwreck of all time, with the world still fascinated by a century-old event that…
Among the many immigrant populations who lived in the cramped and often squalid conditions of New York’s Lower East Side…
A day out by the sea must have seemed an enticing prospect for the 940 passengers who packed into a…
Britain’s first major train crash occurred in August 1868 in North Wales. The Irish Mail was a daily express service…
Whichever way you look at it, the Munich Olympiad of 1972 was tinged with a terrible irony. It was the…
In the centuries following the Black Death, bubonic plague reappeared spasmodically in Europe, gradually receding eastwards where it continued to…