Now they turn their attentions to the Elizabethan explorer, sailor, dandy and warrior, Sir Walter Raleigh, Elizabeth I’s favourite and James I’s knave. As Andrew says, there is so much more to him ...

James, in turn, was a descendant of Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, a prominent judge, politician, and peer infamous for condemning Sir Walter Raleigh to death. Article continues below ...

Henry Montagu was a judge, politician, and peer notorious for sentencing Sir Walter Raleigh to death. James also served as an MP for Huntingdon in the English House of Commons, where he sat ...

Defying all logic, a vehicle has been found parked in the hangar of the USS Yorktown, which was famously sunk in the Pacific by a Japanese submarine during World War II. The baffling discovery was ...

And so, you know, they did the hard work. We just had to keep up." That's what National Geographic explorer Bertie Gregory told On The Red Carpet when we sat down to chat about his new series ...

Nair, tried before an all-English jury and a clearly biased Justice Henry McCardie, stood firm. His lawyer, Sir Walter Schwabe, delivered a passionate defense, though McCardie frequently interrupted.

The great explorer, journalist, soldier, colonial administrator, author and politician, Sir Henry Morton Stanley, is buried in the churchyard of St Michael’s and All Angels, Pirbright. The headstone ...

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