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Seventy photos marking the Queen’s 70 years on the throne were compiled to celebrate...

Alongside Mini cars and mini skirts, some memorable novelty songs hit the UK charts...

Five huge oaks – including one in a landscape thought to be the inspiration...

Formed in Birmingham in 1978, Duran Duran represented a new age of popular music...

Australian folk music star Judith Durham, who achieved global fame as the lead singer...

‘Big L time is three ‘o clock and Radio London is now closing down’...

Fifty-five years ago, the so-called Summer of Love kicked off with one of the...

Hollywood leading man Tom Hanks is one of the best and today we’re looking...

From bright colours to big hair, the 80s were a decade where British artists...

Each season we share a selection of popular book titles and new releases which...

Songs have a remarkable effect on us. The opening chord alone of a piece...

We may all be toasting the Queen during the Platinum Jubilee celebrations, but how...

Born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941, in Minnesota, Bob Dylan became known...

They might be synonymous with cheesy pop – but Sweden’s ‘Fab Four’ changed the...

Star Wars is a film franchise that needs no introduction. From the release of...

Kate Ellis is an Americana/Folk singer-songwriter born in Louisiana, raised in New York and...

For anyone growing up in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, Gerry Anderson’s name instantly...

American actress, singer, businesswoman and film historian Debbie Reynolds is one of the greats...

Remember tuning into a crackly Radio Luxembourg under the bedsheets?  Our generation has a...

After nearly 9,000 episodes, Neighbours has confirmed it’s coming to an end. The popular...

From fast-paced thrillers and murder mysteries to fascinating memoirs and dragon-filled fantasy novels, books...

As rock legend Jon Bon Jovi celebrates his 60th birthday we turn back the...

Each season we share a selection of popular book titles and new releases which...

A women’s suffrage organisation, Britain’s first professional female landscape gardener and a mostly self-taught...

From Boundless: the club for retired and working public sector and civil service workers....

We often look to the younger members of the royal family for everything –...

Queen Elizabeth II is about to reach a major milestone – for on February...

Princess Elizabeth was watching baboons while taking photographs of the Kenyan sunrise from a...

The Queen has seen 14 premiers come and go during her long reign, which...

Oprah Winfrey is a cultural powerhouse – through her television show was most popular...