From the elegant, wit-sharp drawing rooms of the Regency era to the smog-filled, industrialised streets of the Victorian age, ...

Hamnet author’s 10th novel urgently and passionately maps historical change driven by famine, emigration, language loss, ...

Women's participation in leisure and competitive swimming goes back to the days of bathing machines on Irish beaches in the ...

After the huge success of Hamnet, adapted from her 2010 novel, Irish-British writer Maggie O'Farrell turned her attention to ...

Historians debate who first combined gin and tonic water—and where. The now-classic cocktail is often tied to the story of ...

Inside the tiny community of English master thatchers, a fight is unfolding over a tradition that may not survive.

Books of the Month: What to read in June, from a Katharine Hepburn bio-fic to the new novel from Hamnet author Maggie ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with "Hamnet" author Maggie O'Farrell, whose new novel, "Land," draws on her own family's history with Ireland's Great Famine.

From a young age, the author was told that one of her ancestors had drawn some of the first maps of Ireland. Then she found a photograph, and embarked on a journey to discover his story ...

Think ancient legends are just fiction? Discover 14 famous historical myths that modern science and archaeology have proven ...

Four houses of worship in southern New England are examples of the estimated 1% of congregations in the U.S. that have ...

Spokeo analyzed state government information and other historical sources to compile this list of stories behind every ...