It will begin by focusing on Olaudah Equiano, one of the most famous Black abolitionists of the 18th Century, whose powerful ...

No matter how many times she was counted out, the late singer knew how to imbue her mythology with new energy.

The attack from all sides was so general, that they were almost instantaneously covered with mud.” These angry scenes took ...

From 15 February BARBIE: Museum curators have worked in partnership with Mattel Inc, and were given special access to the Barbie archives in ... workers from the Victorian era to the modern ...

“In the 1880s and 1890s there was this very vibrant bare-knuckle boxing scene in the East End of London and there was also the emergence of what we now recognise as boxing with boxing gloves and ...

The Victorian Era was a time of the Industrial Revolution, with authors Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin, the railway and ...

To mark Valentine’s Day here are some love-themed stories from Essex history, some with happy endings, some with bloody ones.

Valentine was executed on February 14 in the year 270 and this date is commemorated as St Valentine’s Day in various ...

Historic England has granted £25,000 to the project, which will draw on photos from private archives. Several projects in North Yorkshire are given thousands of pounds to explore "untold stories". A ...

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice—the musical partnership behind Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita—are set to collaborate for ...

London is the gastropub capital of the world, full of boozers that can compete with our fantastic restaurants in the culinary stakes – but they just happen to come with cracking Victorian ...