One name that sticks out to new ears is Stock, a village south of Chelmsford and in the parliamentary constituency of Maldon. The University of Nottingham says Stock could mean 'Hereweard's outlying ...

Today marks Easter Sunday, , and most families will tuck into an Easter meal of some sort, but what's on the table will be ...

The Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 marked Gandhi’s first major movement in India. In today’s Knowledge Nugget traces the causes ...

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

There is wit, there is doom and gloom. There is a notional kathavasthu (plot). For example, ‘Dagad Ani Maati’ follows a ...

Apart from this, the experts were left surprised after discovering a collection of inscribed pottery vessels bearing the name of Pharaoh Horemheb, who reigned over a century before Ramesses III.

In 1524, hundreds of thousands of peasants across Germany took up arms against their social superiors. Peter Marshall investigates the causes and consequences of the German Peasants’ War, the largest ...

In 1524, hundreds of thousands of peasants across Germany took up arms against their social superiors. Peter Marshall investigates the causes and consequences of the German Peasants’ War, the largest ...

George and Amal Clooney have an idyllic hideaway in the tiny Oxfordshire hamlet of Sonning Eye, which the majority of tourists barely know about, let alone visit. Overlooking a beautiful stretch ...

The recent controversy surrounding the 17th-century Mughal ruler Aurangzeb is a vivid example of how intensely history can be ...

Ghosh asserts that both the intermediate peasant castes as well as the Scheduled Castes ... pointed to a vast body of Dalit literature from Bengal from as early as the 17th century, which they say has ...