A new study from a University of Nottingham archaeologist has revealed surprising insights into the city's medieval past, ...

A ‘delightful boutique’ hotel just outside Melksham has been sold to an Indian company for £4 million as the owner looks ...

Jean Renoir’s 1937 movie, The Grand Illusion, about French soldiers who become prisoners to the Germans in World War I, is ...

The game is a fresh title from Obsidian Entertainment, which has made some of the best role-playing games of all time, ...

From the 1200s to the 1700s, the custom of Christian tattooing was prevalent in Europe among peasants, seafarers, soldiers and artisans as much as among nuns and monks. They were getting crosses, ...

ASI assesses damage to 16th-century monument after plaster falls from north-east minaret; no casualties reported Heavy rains in Hyderabad on Thursday led to pieces of mortar falling from the north ...

We started eating three meals a day in the 16th century - here’s why - Breakfast, lunch and dinner is an almost universally ...

A History of the World in Six Plagues" explores the racial and class inequalities linking infectious disease epidemics.

As Andrew F. Smith details in his 1994 book The Tomato in America: Early History, Culture and Cookery, before the fruit made ...

A scientist who was working on plague-causing bacteria caught the disease despite using weakened strains that were deemed ...

Guest: Linda Gordon is Professor Emerita of History at New York University. She is the winner of two Bancroft Prizes for best book in American history, most lately she is the author of Seven Social ...