As a young academic in Australia, Duncan Anderson was determined to escape what he saw as the narrow anti-intellectualism of his native Queensland culture....

At the age of 17, Judy Jacklin fell in love with the charismatic son of an Albanian immigrant — a football star in the year above who worked behind the cash...

Ray Reardon was one of Britain’s best-known sportsmen in an era when snooker regularly attracted some of the biggest television audiences in the country. Not...

Sylvie Joy Woodburn was born on April 10, 2024, at Conquest Hospital in Hastings to Erin Burn , 38, and Jamie Wood , 36 Sylvie’s surname, Woodburn, is a...

It was after meeting Jacques Cousteau at a diving conference in the 1960s that the physical chemist Professor Sir Brian Smith was inspired to understand...

Sylvain Saudan climbed cliff faces with crampons, axes and ropes. Why not ski back down? The obvious reason was that it would be extraordinarily dangerous,...

When Bob Newhart’s stand-up comedy set was being recorded in a Houston club by Warner Brothers, the first attempt was ruined by a front-row drunk repeatedly...

When the phone rang with the latest death threat, Oliver Walston would pass the phone to his wife and three children around the dinner table and everyone...

Bill Viola was six when he almost drowned while on holiday in upstate New York. “It was the most blissful moment. I saw paradise,” he told The Times. Then an...

After reinventing the Rolls-Royce Phantom for the 21st century, the car designer Ian Cameron borrowed the souped-up coupé version and took his two sons on a...