If Britain is a chessboard, then politicians should remember that the ‘pieces’ are alive, and they generally play a better game.

From performance and composition to instrument-making, Clementi left his mark on British and European classical music.

The railway earned a special place in history as the first to be designed for steam locomotives only.

The little County Durham line built by George Stephenson and his son Robert was the place where the world’s railway infrastructure really began.

Sir William Herschel not only discovered Uranus and infrared radiation, but composed two dozen symphonies as well.

Loyal subjects of King James II continued to fight his corner after he, and any real hope of success, had gone.