Bringing a little colour to your life each day - with six things that delight, inform and entertain.
You're looking at one of the incredible photographs taken by Australian Frank Hurley in 1915 of the ship Endurance, trapped in ice during British explorer Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition. Many more were lost to sea when the ship had to be abandoned.
Samuel Richardson was an English writer and printer. Writing in the mid 1700s, he is regarded as one of the most important innovators of the novel form.
On the 8th September 1854, the authorities removed the handle of the water pump in Broad Street in Soho, London - suspecting that infected water from it was causing an outbreak of deadly cholera. When this action proved effective in reducing the rates of the disease, it was finally understood that cholera spread through water not air.
Chedworth Villa, in the Cotswolds, is one of the largest, most complete Roman villas in the UK. It was discovered in 1864 by Thomas Margetts, a gamekeeper who was digging for a ferret, and instead found fragments of mosaic.
Henry Hudson was an English sea explorer and navigator during the early 17th century, best known for his explorations of present-day Canada. His last voyage came to an unfortunate end and his fate is uncertain.
Nearly a thousand years old, the massive, imposing and dramatic Westminster Hall, is the oldest surviving part of the Palace of Westminster and scene of many significant events in British history. When erected in 1097 by King William II ('William Rufus'), it was the largest hall in Europe.
Six things to delight and entertain you every day.