The idea of a community being named for a person who owns all, or nearly all, its property was most roundly derided in the ...

The designer and architect, 75, whose hotel project, Maison Heler, opens in Metz, France, this spring, wants us to consume ...

A First World War memorial dedicated to a soldier who was fatally shot as he delivered a message during the Battle of Somme has been given Grade II listing. The memorial, in a Lancashire churchyard, ...

In 1890, John and Violet Mackintosh opened a sweet ... Unlike Birmingham's Cadbury World, visitors can't take tours of the Quality Street factory. But fortunately, you don't need to get a job ...

The story of the Cup is well known - first run in 1861 when won by the mighty Archer, and a grand stage for some of all-time ...

The Babylonian oldest map solved revealing ancient beliefs about Mesopotamia and mysterious lands beyond the known world.

The oldest surviving world map, known as the Imago Mundi, offers a fascinating glimpse into ancient Babylonian life. Dating ...

A British heritage organisation has launched a project to tell the forgotten story of 19th century Black American ...

The story, a creepy tale of the supernatural called “Gibbet Hill,” had been published in a now-defunct Irish newspaper in 1890 ... In the small world of 19th-century Dublin, she had the ...

Spread on the banks of the Syr Darya River, bordering the Kyzylkum desert in the southeast and Aryskum sands in the north, ...

Researchers think they have found a depiction of Noah’s Ark on the 3,000-year-old Babylonian Map of the World. Also known as ...