Category: Science & Fiction

With Captain Jack Sparrow entertaining cinema audiences in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, I thought I’d take a trip to east London on the trail of another pirate – this one of the supernatural variety. The waterfront neighbourhood of Wapping, to the east of the City of London, has changed enormously over the...

Heads up, folks! If she keeps to her supernatural schedule then now’s a great time to look out for Britain’s most famous phantom. When Anne Boleyn (or Bullen) married King Henry VIII she wasn’t his first wife. That dubious privilege had fallen to Catherine of Aragon, who had previously been married to Henry’s brother Arthur...