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Football Daily | Was Tuchel and Bellingham really a Keane v McCarthy moment? ⊕

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Breakfast in America was a happy place for an Englishman this Sunday morning. Thanks to Jude Bellingham, (very probably) a hanging cable and a remar…

16 days ago

‘Maggie Thatcher, can you hear me?’ The story behind the iconic Norway v England commentary ⊖

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Bjørge Lillelien’s famous rant after 1981 clash stemmed from Norwegian obsession with English football

What do Lord Nelson, Lord Beaverbrook, Sir Winston Churchill, Sir Anthony Eden, Clement Attlee, H…

88 days ago

A 750-tonne crane was used last night to lift the front mast from Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson's 18th century warship and lay it down by her side at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard.

7 months ago

The SailGP championship harnesses sailors’ competitive instincts in the cause of sustainability as teams vie to be the greenest of them all

British sailors have always been a belligerent bunch. Franci…

8 months ago

The British naval hero made the kind offer in a letter to his wine merchant in 1802, around four years after he and Lady Emma Hamilton began their affair.

9 months ago

Nelson's watch was inserted into its current carriage clock case by his niece, Lady Bridport, in the 1840s. It was salvaged from Nelson's body as he lay dying at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
Lord Nelson and Emma Hamilton were obsessed with each other during their six-year roller coaster romance, which resulted in the birth of a love child
More than 200 years after she died in debt and destitution at the age of 49, scientists believe they have rediscovered the face of Lady Emma Hamilton, Lord Nelson's infamous lover.
Nelson had his right limb blown off during the Battle of Santa Cruz in Tenerife in 1797. Five months after the remains of his limb was amputated, he wrote to a London curate.

13 months ago

It was displayed at the front of HMS Royal Sovereign which led one of the columns during the seismic battle on October 21, 1805.

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