Tag Archives: History

The Great Train Robbery of 1963 is one of the most infamous heists in history. It has been retold countless times in books and in film and the legend around it continues to grow to this day. The elaborate plan to steal what would amount today to around £58million from …

Formerly homeless tour guides are giving visitors a unique perspective on the city streets they once called home. Invisible Cities is a social enterprise that trains people who have experienced homelessness to become tour guides of the places they often know better than anyone else. Edinburgh Live reports that the …

In 1959, Queen Elizabeth II made a 45-day visit to Canada. One of CBC television’s top personalities then was Joyce Davidson; during the royal visit, she was a guest on NBC’s Today show in the United States, and was asked what she thought. “Like most Canadians,” she said, “I am …

STRIKES are multiplying. Train drivers’ action at the weekend will be followed by other transport workers this week.  RMT and TSSA members will be taking action across the rail network on Thursday and Saturday. The capital will be paralysed on Friday as RMT and Unite members strike on the underground …

Tom Rachman is a Canadian-British writer based in London. His new novel, The Imposters, comes out next year. Horses dragged the golden carriage through London, eight glum beasts clopping no faster than you’d walk, owing to the tonnage of the absurd vehicle, with its carved cherubs, palm trees and sea …

The Royal BC Museum in Victoria.CHAD HIPOLITO/The Globe and Mail Next week, the British Columbia government will lay out its business case for spending nearly $800-million to rebuild the Royal BC Museum in Victoria. The announcement, made May 13, was a shocker. B.C. Premier John Horgan promised a “safer, more …

The British Columbia government will lay out its case for building a new Royal B.C. Museum after the Opposition took aim at the initiative as a “billion-dollar vanity project.” Tourism Minister Melanie Mark said Thursday there has been interest in the business case since the government announced the $789-million rebuilding …

After departing London at 7.20pm on August 31, 1943, a train stopped off in Glasgow before making its way up to Inverness – it was here that a theft was discovered, with over £6000 of banknotes and jewellery missing from the mail bags. When workers moved the mail bags, with …

For much of the 19th century, the old Theatre Royal on Broughton Street was one of the capital’s top entertainment venues and was regularly packed to the rafters – but it suffered from awful luck when it came to fires. The original Theatre Royal opened in 1767 in Shakespeare Square, …

A knack for delving into the past to uncover answers has become a “labour of love” for retired clinical psychologist, Alverie Weighill. After eight years of painstaking research covering more than two centuries and all manner of topics, her new book, called The Resort of All Amorous Couples: Thomas Telford’s …