WAGON AND CARRIAGE INDUSTRY. Though Cleveland was never home to the massive wagon and carriage factories found in some midwestern cities, it nevertheless possessed large numbers of smaller firms ...

An archaeological investigation has since determined the timber belonged to a bridge structure dating back to the 1860s. Brisbane City Council infrastructure committee chairwoman Amanda Cooper ...

"The bedding could have been full of vermin." After enduring five nights undercover, Mrs Higgs published a report on her findings. Her investigation had the desired effect, causing shock and ...

A rendering of the 48-unit Kal Recovery Project, which is planned for a site adjacent to 333 E. Alcott St. in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The $22.3 million project aims to house people who are recovering ...

Carol Talbot, who has written a book about Mrs Higgs's life, said: "When she came to Oldham she had found her sphere. "She found things that she could actually do." It was during this time that ...

The undercover vagrant who exposed workhouse life 3 days ago Jade Burns & Lauren Hirst BBC News, Oldham ...

In 1904, a woman left her terraced house in Oldham, disguised in old clothes and pretending to be destitute. She travelled to a common lodging house and what she found there left her horrified. This ...

Whitlingham Hall, Trowse, Norwich. A two-storey apartment in a Grade II-listed 1860s country house set in seven acres of landscaped gardens with a lake and a communal orangery. It has open ...

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery is now keen to acquire the work, which is believed to be the only oil painting Turner made of the city. It has launched a one-week public fundraising campaign, called ...

Former President Biden during a speech Thursday night to mark Juneteenth, the holiday that commemorates the emancipation of slaves in the U.S. in the 1860s, blasted “efforts to erase history.” ...