In the mid-19th century, a daring dream took shape as two nations celebrated the historic link created by an undersea cable beneath the English Channel. But one man, Frederic Newton Gisborne, ...

Theatreworks will end its season with "Flyin' West," running through July 27 at the Ent Center for the Arts. The show follows ...

The British way of life is “under threat” because of climate change, Ed Miliband has claimed. The Energy Secretary suggested that those who opposed Labour’s approach to green policy would be ...

Bavaria's fairy-tale royal castles, including Neuschwanstein, Herrenchiemsee and Linderhof, have been added to the UNESCO ...

The British Museum could face legal action unless it abandons “covert and ideological” negotiations with Greece over the ...

From heartfelt 19th-century letters to Swiftie bracelets, a UC Berkeley American studies course looks at the ways we’ve found ...

Allo Ya Masr, or Hello Egypt, is the famous phrase that you would usually hear out loud if any of your neighbours were ...

The Bruce Arms is the quintessential country pub; it still has a red brick floor and 19th century wooden furniture. Located in the beautifully remote village of Easton Royal, with its own campsite, it ...

The July 4, 1910 title fight between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries led to riots, mayhem, murder — and the racially motivated ...

But it wasn't until the last conflict of the 19th century that the Signal Corps began to grow.

Early visions of Mars: Meet the 19th-century astronomer who used science fiction to imagine the red planet by Matthew Shindell, The Conversation edited by Lisa Lock, reviewed by Andrew Zinin ...