Forget flogging the family silver, the private owners of today's stately homes and castles are preserving their future ...

I'm very slow to the news that the MFA Houston opened a new temporary exhibition at the beginning of this year dedicated to ...

After more than three decades of mystery, the unidentified human bones that were found scattered on several New Jersey beaches have been matched with a name. The bones belong to Henry Goodsell, the 29 ...

The film recounts the travel adventures of a young blacksmith's apprentice in the early 1840s as he embarks on a journey from his village in Eastern New York to join his family in Illinois. His ...

Women weren’t the only ones expected to cover up in early 20th century. Topless swimwear for men didn’t become common until the 1930s, when Olympic swimmer Johnny Weissmuller bared his chest ...

and then will return to around 10.2 billion by the end of the century. The size of the world’s population in 2100 is now expected to be six per cent lower—or 700 million fewer—than anticipat ...

A quaint 19th-century Cambridge house could be turned into a seven-person house of multiple occupancy (HMO). MATT Architecture Ltd proposes to turn Grafton House in Grafton Street, Cambridge ...

He wears an earring, his clothes seem to owe more to the 1980s New Romantic movement than 19th-Century costume, and from his affairs with women to his lack of deference to his so-called superiors ...

He's often credited as a founder of French gastronomy and of Grande Cuisine (classic French cuisine which was at its most lavish during the 19th Century). However, according to Paul Freedman ...

Now aged 14 and batting alongside India’s Test opener Yashasvi Jaiswal, Suryavanshi hit a magnificent century off only 35 balls as the Royals successfully chased down Gujarat Titans’ 209 with ...

Representing Rajasthan Royals, he blazed his way to a century in just 35 balls against Gujarat Titans at the Swaiman Singh Stadium. The record of fastest century in IPL belongs to former West ...