The Royal Yacht Britannia has been rated the UK’s favourite historical attraction, according to a new Which? survey. The Queen’s former yacht, permanently moored on the waters of Leith in Edinburgh, came out on top when members of the consumer organisation were asked to rate the UK’s 50 most visited historical attractions on criteria including … Read more
It’s 1888 and Daniel Bones, the unhappy, 14-year-old habitué of a fenland village, is co-opted as an apprentice to the maverick Captain Clarke B.
If Napoleon had been caught on camera: Artist uses AI to create stunningly realistic photo portraits of famous figures including the Statue of Liberty and Michelangelo’s David Bas Uterwijk, from Amsterdam, creates realistic portraits using technology The artist uses ‘deep-learning’ AI to create realistic photos of famous figures Bas made near perfect photos of Lady … Read more
HISTORICAL By Eithne Farry For The Daily Mail Published: 22:03 BST, 7 May 2020 | Updated: 22:03 BST, 7 May 2020 WHEN WE FALL by Carolyn Kirby (No Exit Press £12.99, 352 pp) WHEN WE FALL by Carolyn Kirby (No Exit Press £12.99, 352 pp) Thick fog, a Tiger Moth plane and an emergency landing … Read more
HISTORICAL By Elizabeth Buchan For The Daily Mail Published: 22:02 GMT, 31 October 2019 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 31 October 2019 THE EIGHTH LIFE (FOR BRILKA) by Nino Haratischvili (Scribe £20, 944 pp) ‘So we must try and make something of this,’ writes Niza at the beginning of this huge, sweeping, multi- award-winning historical family drama … Read more
HISTORICAL By Eithne Farry For The Daily Mail Published: 22:01 GMT, 9 January 2020 | Updated: 22:44 GMT, 9 January 2020 MISS AUSTEN by Gill Hornby (Century £12.99, 416 pp) MISS AUSTEN by Gill Hornby (Century £12.99, 416 pp) ‘Whoever looked at an elderly lady and saw the young heroine she once was?’ asks the … Read more
HISTORICAL By Eithne Farry For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 6 February 2020 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 6 February 2020 THE MERCIES by Kiran Millwood Hargrave (Picador £14.99, 352 pp) THE MERCIES by Kiran Millwood Hargrave (Picador £14.99, 352 pp) In starkly beautiful sentences Kiran Millwood Hargrave, up until now a bestselling children’s author, … Read more