Robert Clive turned seven hundred frightened recruits into crack troops by sheer force of personality.

Granville Sharp and his surgeon brother William rescued a young African man from the streets of London.

At Bamburgh, John Sharp organised free healthcare and education, bargain groceries, and the world’s first coastguard service.

Opened in 1725, the Tanfield Railway is one of the oldest railways still operating anywhere in the world.

The simple melody of the United Kingdom’s national anthem has stirred the souls of some great composers.

Britain never knew she was a nation of voracious readers until printing entered the steam age.