In the mid-19th century, a daring dream took shape as two nations celebrated the historic link created by an undersea cable beneath the English Channel. But one man, Frederic Newton Gisborne ...

They are in complete harmony with the heavy meals, strong drink, elaborate clothes, ornate furnishings, flamboyant art, melodramatic plays, loud music, flowery speeches and thundering sermons of ...

Derby and Derbyshire are known the world over for being the home of Rolls-Royce, being the cradle of industrialisation, boasting that Florence Nightingale lived here - and having fantastic scenery.

Some 75 per cent of transatlantic cables go through or close to Ireland. About $10 trillion in financial transactions go through the cables on a daily basis, according to the European Subsea Cable ...

19th Century White House Female Kitchen Staff The White House Historical Association joined with the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History to look at the role of food and dining in ...

Barbed wire is a critical innovation that shaped the High Plains. Field Editor Lacey Vilhauer takes a look at its origins.

UK repeals 19th-century law In the amendment passed by British MPs, parts of the 1861 law will be revoked. The bill was originally passed by an all-male parliament that deemed that ending a ...

JOINT BASE MYER-HENDERSON HALL, VA –Soldiers are buttoning up 19th-century frocks, slipping into suspenders, and donning tricorn hats to march in the Army's 250th anniversary parade on June 14.

Its future becomes apparent only as visitors make their way through the complex. Just beyond the halfway point, the solid enclosure of the eponymous tunnel suddenly gives way to what firm partner ...

A 19th century ship that sank nearly 140 years ago has been found “frozen in time” off Britain’s coast. Twenty-three crew members died when the SS Nantes sank off the coast of Cornwall in ...