For Gaby and Sonya Gropman, a trip to Munich to retrieve a kiddush cup represented a homecoming to a land where there is no longer a home ...

As politicians worldwide scramble to appeal to working people, this city in northern England has a claim to be the birthplace ...

Curators at Moyse’s Hall Museum (located in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk) just found an anthropodermic book hidden on an office ...

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Why did those bombings happen? That question is at the heart of Richard Overy’s Rain of Ruin. The book is short, but that belies its weight and seriousness, as it asks how the most devastating bombs ...

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Young LSG spinner Digvesh Rathi has impressed with six wickets in four IPL matches. However, his unique celebration of miming notes after taking a wicket has resulted in two fines for send-offs to ...

In the mid-19th century, two conflicts over the opium trade, which became known as the Opium Wars, pitted China against the British Empire. The first began in 1839, when Britain launched a ...

A scientific analysis of dozens of 12th- and 13th-century books found in European monasteries reveals they were bound in sealskins procured by Norse traders from as far away as Greenland.

A fragment of manuscript found in the book binding of a 16th-century archival register was actually a famed King Arthur sequel series. University of Cambridge For centuries, the stories of King ...