It’s not surprising, therefore, that many sheriffs gained a reputation for being selfish and grasping, none more so than the most famous (fictional) postholder of all: the Sheriff of Nottingham in the ...

A magical mermaid story extracted from the new book Welsh Folk Tales of Coast and Sea by Peter Stevenson. The shallow sea in Cardigan Bay, from Pen Llŷn in the north to Ceredigion in the west, was ...

In the thirteenth century the law and finances of each English county were under the jurisdiction of a sheriff (the word comes from ‘shire-reeve’), who was appointed by the Crown. Catherine Hanley ...

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The Titanic disaster is famous not only for the two-hour-forty-minute stately submerging of the ship into the icy water and the numerous human dramas that unfolded on board, but also for the breaking ...

Benjamin Stimpson, BA (Hons), MBACP is an author, independent folklorist and therapist. He is the author of Ancestral Whispers (Sept 2023, Llewellyn Worldwide), which to date has sold over 2,000 ...