A polished debut: This is the dining room table Prince Philip was born on

A polished debut: This is the dining room table Philip was born on – and which has now been saved for posterity sitting in the boardroom of a shipping company in the City of London Princess Alice of Battenberg gave birth to the future Duke of Edinburgh on June 10, 1921, in Mon Repos, Corfu … Read more

Britain’s greatest living playwright Sir Tom Stoppard secretly polished scripts

Britain’s greatest living playwright Sir Tom Stoppard secretly polished scripts for 102 Dalmatians, Beethoven and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, a new book has revealed. Sir Tom, 83, best known for acclaimed plays Arcadia, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and The Coast of Utopia, also worked behind the scenes on scripts for The Bourne Ultimatum, Star … Read more

Roman artefacts found in Chester include polished bone gaming piece

Rare Roman artefacts including a lozenge-shaped gaming piece made from polished bone that was used in the ‘Game of Mercenaries’ are unearthed at a building site in Chester The ancient gaming piece is made of polished bone and dates back 2,000 years  It was used in the Game of Mercenaries – an ancient chess or … Read more

Rare Roman artefacts including a polished bone gaming piece unearthed in Chester 

Rare Roman artefacts including a lozenge-shaped gaming piece made from polished bone that was used in the ‘Game of Mercenaries’ are unearthed at a building site in Chester The ancient gaming piece is made of polished bone and dates back 2,000 years  It was used in the Game of Mercenaries – an ancient chess or … Read more