As the great naval hero lay dying on HMS Victory, he instructed Vice-Admiral Thomas Hardy to remove chunks of his hair and give them to his mistress Lady Emma Hamilton.

The nearly 300-year-old building - one of the most striking in Worcester city centre - was once a workhouse, a hotel, and ...

Congratulations to students across Portsmouth who took part in the first round of Youth Speaks debating competition run by The Rotary Club.

THE next u3a art talk, by Keith Appleby, on Tuesday, February 4, is on “Landscape Photography and Art”. In an exploration of this dynamic movement, Keith will be looking at the works of Pollock, ...

Admiral Lord Nelson's decisive victory at the Battle of Trafalgar is well known. What is less well known is that without the powder monkeys, the brave young boys who ferried the gunpowder to the guns, ...

Part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the naval dockyard was once the home of the British fleet during the Napoleonic Wars, and served as the headquarters of Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson from 1784 ...

As Nelson lay dying he asked that some hair be kept for Lady Hamilton. Could this lock, now for sale, be some of that hair.

And when the great admiral had been ten years in his grave, he said of an officer’s gallant conduct at the battle of Algiers, “ He seems to have felt Lord Nelson’s eye upon him,” as though ...

Admiral Lord Nelson’s indelible mark on British history extends far beyond his iconic victory at the Battle of Trafalgar.

The ancient thoroughfare was re-christened in 1802 as a tribute to Admiral Lord Nelson on his famous visit to Worcester to receive the freedom of the city. A pub along the street also paid homage ...

It may be one of the biggest hitters on the UK’s Best Places To Live lists, but Brockenhurst is just one of a string of ...