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Lincoln Imps: The Boiled Sweet Named After a Ca...

The medieval legend of the Lincoln Imp, and how it gave its name to a traditional English boiled sweet.

Toffee Crisp: The History of Nestlé's Crunchy T...

Every layer of a Toffee Crisp bar — crisped rice, oozy toffee, chocolate — can be traced back to a cake made for two children in a Mackintosh family kitchen....

Sweets of the 1980s: The Bars That Launched Thi...

The real launch stories behind Wispa, Boost, the Wham Bar and M&M's arriving in Britain during the 1980s.

Newberry Fruits: The Rowntree's Sweet With a Cu...

Why fans still ask what happened to Rowntree's fruit-shaped jelly sweet with the liquid centre.

Berwick Cockles: Scotland's Minty Seaside Sweet

The pink-and-white, shell-shaped mint sweet made in Berwick-upon-Tweed for well over a century, born from the town's fishing and confectionery trades.

Space Raiders: The History of the UK's Alien-Sh...

Long before flying-saucer sweets became a novelty aisle staple, there was another alien snack causing a stir in British corner shops: a crunchy, alien-shaped corn snack that cost just 10p...