The group provides dramatic and costumed historical storytelling workshops linked to National Curriculum requirements in English and history. Jenny Wright, a Year Two teacher at the school in Emmbrook Road, said: “Year Two children at Emmbrook infant...

But though he doesn't title his report quite as provocatively as "The Royal Society is a joke" – that, essentially, his conclusion. How did this once revered institution, home of such great men as Sir Christopher Wren, Samuel Pepys, Sir Joseph Banks...

Pepys (1633-1703) was the naval administrator and first secretary of the British Admiralty. Here's what he wrote on Feb. 10, 1669. Here [the Duke of York] dined, and did mightily magnify his sauce ... and said it was the best universal sauce in the...

English were able to enjoy chocolate decades before it was manufactured in the U.S. London saw chocolate for the first time in 1657, which was imported from a French shop. Samuel Pepys wrote about the stimulating morning drink. The English may have been...

Greatrex has excised the executioner’s noose from his performance and restricted use of Punch’s notorious “slapstick”. Even so, he says many parents choose alternative entertainment for birthday celebrations. This is a shame on many levels. For...

Three-hundred-and-fifty years on a new play, The Devil and Mr Punch by the Improbable theatre company, is to open at the Barbican. Director Julian Crouch came on to the Today programme to talk about the show... and was joined by John Styles, who has an...