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

The Alligator Farm Zoological Park has been showcasing reptiles since 1893, making it one of Florida’s oldest continuously ...

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

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

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

The playful stage design on the 'Debí tirar más fotos' tour nods to the buildings of Humacao, an eastern Puerto Rican town ...

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.

The author of a book chronicling the evolution of the global game explores the origins of association football.

For Russia, the agreement became a major diplomatic success in the Far East. For China, it became one of the painful episodes ...

In the 19th century, capitalist markets combined with environmental disaster to cause famines across the Global South. We ...

Long before fashion influencers became a thing, Jnanadanandini Devi transformed women’s dressing in colonial Calcutta ...

Most people think time machines are science fiction, but there’s one operating quietly in Tacoma that runs on historical ...