Pseudo-archaeology has played a big role in constructing mythical histories that feed into imagined pasts that ultimately ...

Since the late 18th century, small colonies of bats have guarded the books in the Joanina Library at the University of Coimbra in central Portugal. The library contains 60,000 books that are all ...

A piece of local history was lost Tuesday night when the Ward-Hancock House, a historic home dating back to the late 1700s, ...

On Tuesday night, a historic home in Beaufort was destroyed in a fire. We spoke with officials from the North Carolina Maritime Museum about the significance of ...

With their pristine fur and dark almond eyes, arctic foxes are possibly one of the most beautiful mammals to have lived in ...

When Alessandro Michele was growing up in Rome in the 1970s, one of his favourite pastimes was to rummage through his ...

After 138 years, a lost opera by the Black American composer Edmond Dédé finally gets its world premiere — and a performance ...

Bengali textile workers were not enslaved as ancillary to men or as commodities of pleasure alone. They were enslaved and ...

Campaigners have called for cars to be banned from the infamous A57 Snake Pass - the winding Peak District road connecting ...

Watford Observer local history columnist Lesley Dunlop looks back at the links between Corran School in Watford and the Moberly-Jourdain incident.