Vocal and plumage variation in the Bewick’s wren is extensive, but all adults have a very long tail, tipped in white and flicked side to side. Eastern populations have disappeared from much of ...

Dull in appearance but notable for its effervescent song, the house wren is a common summer inhabitant of scrublands and woodland edges throughout much of North America. Variation in plumage and ...

Photo: Wrens (members of the Women's Royal Naval Service) at Bletchley with Colossus, the world's first electronic programmable computer, in 1942. (SSPL/Getty Images) Peter Westcombe, founder of ...

A Guernsey woman serving as a Wren in World War Two unknowingly intercepted messages from her home island. Barbara Quevâtre was 14 when she was evacuated from Guernsey ahead of its occupation by ...

The success of D-Day can also be attributed to a unique branch of the British Royal Navy comprised of women known as the “Wrens ... During World War II, 303 of them lost their lives.

Retired Royal Navy Captain Hore, the author of a number of naval histories, gives us the story of the several hundred Royal Navy women (“Wrens”) who were the mainstay of the “Y Service”, who monitored ...

Sir Christopher Wren, the famous architect, was appointed Surveyor of the Fabric at Westminster Abbey on 11th March 1698 (New Style dating). He had previously done some work on Dr Busby's house in the ...