May explores the stories of Christopher Columbus, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Captain James Cook in a new Channel 5 series.

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A red velvet bag which was used to carry Sir Walter Raleigh’s head after he was executed has been ... An historian recently visited the stately home and saw an old red velvet bag that had been found ...

A 400-year-old map could reveal the secrets of a lost English colony that experts have spent hundreds of years searching for.

Not many people know that the British Isles has its own tropical paradise - and it's right under our noses. Patricia Wooding ...

Here are some of the TV highlights in the week ahead starting Saturday, February 9, including Virdee, Sort Your Life Out with ...

Sir Walter Raleigh is said to have planted the first potato in Ireland near his home in Youghal, Cork, around 1588. The 13-arch bridge in the village of Glanworth was built in the mid-15th-century ...

On returning to England, he found Sir Walter Raleigh, the colony’s wealthy patron ... Ragged and hungry, the men caught a ride home less than a year later with a fleet commanded by Sir Francis ...

Before Sir Walter Raleigh led English expeditions to the “New World” in the late 1580s, the land was home to Carolina Algonquians. During the American Civil War in the 1860s, formerly enslaved people ...

Following the end of James May: Our Man in... and The Grand Tour last year, and May's new show James May and the Dull Men ...