Nanette Stocker, the Smallest Woman in the Kingdom

Nanette (incorrectly recorded as ‘Nanetta’ on her stone) is a forgotten music hall star and little person who died with a huge following.

A Preacher and a Horse Walk into a Bar

I don’t know about you, but when I think about Methodism, the first thing that springs to mind is a horse skeleton.

On 12th December 1978, Roman Wardas, a 24-year old Polish refugee took to the stand in Switzerland, accused of stealing Chaplin’s body.

One postcard lead to a story of a murdered covenanter who ended his days in a field in Dumfriesshire

At daybreak on April 14th, 1561, residents of Nuremberg Germany woke up to an alien aerial battle raging above their heads.

Avebury is a tiny village near Marlborough in Wiltshire and is surrounded by Europe’s largest Neolithic stone circle.

Legsby St Thomas: A place for worship, farmers, locked chest mysteries and grave stories waiting to be told.

Friedrich Der Große's grave is rather unusual, and not just for that of a royal. Why? There are always potatoes nearby.

Fire Constable Arthur Wale lost his life aged 46 in the Derham Boot Factory fire of 1906...

Cardboard fans, whether folding or attached to a handle, were a particularly popular means of advertisement from the 1920s-60s.