A British climber who scaled Mount Everest for the 19th time, breaking his own record for the most ascents of the world’s ...

A British climber who scaled Mount Everest and broke his own record for the most ascents of the world’s highest peak by a non-Sherpa guide, returned from the mountain on Tuesday.

a 19th century German strongman once described as “the finest specimen of manhood.” He didn’t invent weight training, but he was the first to turn bodybuilding into a global celebrity brand.

‘There is this intense rise in fascism’: Simon McBurney on a 19th-century opera that feels painfully familiar on facebook (opens in a new window) ‘There is this intense rise in fascism ...

According to the biography of Koutalianos published by his two sons in the United States, Panagis grew up in the second half of the 19th century as a Greek in the Ottoman Empire. Nationalism was the ...

More than 400 German toys dating from the 19th Century have sold at auction for almost £200,000. The collection of toys made out of wood, papier-mâché or composition in the Sonneberg and ...

In this age where anyone can navigate any city around the globe like a local, with a simple tap of a smart phone, a new exhibition has the viewer step back in time to a far different way of ...

Some of the oldest landscape photographs of England have been acquired by Historic England, providing a glimpse into the country in the 19th century. More than 8,000 photos that depict English ...

For several months in 1898, a pair of male lions turned the Tsavo region of Kenya into their own human hunting grounds, killing many construction workers who were building the Kenya-Uganda railway.

This media landscape helped bring about the Civil War. The point is not that 21st century media is like the 19th century’s, but that the past was hardly full of the upstanding, rational, nonpartisan ...

This is a self-portrait of an anxious man at the turn of the century: there is no harmony in him, the future terrifies him, he is in despair and stupor. Paul Gauguin: “Self-Portrait with Yellow Christ ...