‘The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue’: How a 1970s Spanish horror movie took over the Peak District

In the early 1970s, a Spanish director decided to set his zombie horror movie 'The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue' in the Peak District.

Reform accused of ‘return to age-old racism’ after Goodwin’s remark

Streeting accuses Reform of ‘return to age-old racism’ after by-election candidate’s comments about being British - Exclusive ...

The LA hotel that accidentally formed the UK’s greatest fictional band: “Where’s your bass?”

The United Kingdom has been responsible for some of the greatest and most iconic bands in music history, but the nation’s ...

This British Car Combined Two Aircraft Engines For Nearly 1000 HP In The '20s

Carl Benz patented his squat, three-wheeled Benz Patent Motor Car (Model no. 1) in 1886, and it didn't take long for humanity ...

What’s on TV tonight and this week: Outlander returns, Winter Paralympics, and more

Plenty of new dramas to enjoy this week, from the return of The Capture and Ellis to a new adaptation of A Woman of Substance ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN

Thirty-four years ago, a British Museum staffer stole 350 prints in broad daylight. A new book chronicles the thefts and their fallout

Nigel Peverett had worked at the British Museum in London since the early 1970s, but in April, 1992, he was caught leaving with around thousands of dollars worth of prints. When the internal and ...
American Songwriter

Born on This Day in 1947, an Underrated Session Singer and Actress Who Was the First British White Singer To Be Signed to Motown

Kiki Dee, a famous collaborator of Elton John and Dusty Springfield, was born on this very day, March 6, 1947.

Water firms treated our rivers like sewers. Now they’re facing an almighty – and deserved – backlash

In the 1980s, the letters pages in The Telegraph received a remarkable amount of correspondence about the call of the cuckoo ...

Chagos islanders issue defiant message in blow to Keir Starmer - 'We will not leave'

The campaign to keep the islands British has a simple message for the PM: 'The Chagossian people have returned home and we ...

People in northeast B.C. say rest of province should embrace living in a single time zone year-round

"You'll love it," is the message Oliver Hachmeister of Fort St. John has for British Columbians who will soon be joining B.C.
Classical Music

These 23 songs soundtracked the dark side of 1970s America

America could be a turbulent, paranoid, often violent place. These 23 songs soundtrack those dark, strange times ...

Cricket crosses its boundaries

What a journey it has been for cricket, I told myself last week as two headlines hit the screens: the men’s T20 World Cup ...