John Franklin died on June 11, 1847, but 105 officers and crew survived long enough to abandon the ships on April 22, 1848, ...

Epic' show explores the many routes connecting East and West, through a collection of 'beautiful, unusual, intricate' ...

How the British sunk San José galleon became the ‘Holy Grail’ of shipwrecks sparking a war over its £13bn treasure ...

Roland Allen’s “The Notebook” chronicles the vital role notebooks played in the achievements of luminaries like Erasmus, ...

Use of fearmongering against Haitian immigrants is part of a long legacy of racism and xenophobia towards the Haitian people.

Musing on John Lewis-Stempel's latest book, England: A natural history, James McConnachie marks the flowering of other, more ...

The British Athena Pathway team made history by taking victory in the opening race of the first Women's America's Cup.The team is one of 12 in the inaugural women's competition and ended the first day ...

The most infamous execution of history occurred approximately 29 AD ... [5] The first recorded execution in the English American colonies was in 1608 when officials executed George Kendall of ...

Book-banning might seem like a relic of less enlightened times, but the practice is back in a big way. The American Library Association reports ( that 2022 saw more attempts to have books removed from ...

A dice game where players wager on the outcomes of a pair of dice rolls. Here we will talk all about craps- from history to ...

The English Football League Cup, often referred to as the “EFL Cup” or by its current sponsorship name “Carabao Cup,” is one of the most prestigious ...

This year’s official theme for UK Black History Month, which runs throughout October, is “reclaiming narratives”. That means ...