As we move our clocks forward an hour into British Summer Time, Alastair Bonnett considers the uses and abuses of one of the 19th century’s most beneficial inventions ...

Whether you're wanting a week filled with history and grand architecture, or want to eat your weight in local cheese and ...

Set in 1895, Emma Donoghue's latest novel The Paris Express takes readers all aboard a suspenseful train journey from the ...

Five months after deadly floods ravaged Valencia, the Spanish city is hosting its biggest celebration of the year.

This book, as Richard Reid explains at the outset, is not the history of the European “Scramble for ... partition of the continent in the late 19th century – indeed, that in some cases ...

The artwork and papier-mache sculptures are painstakingly crafted and then burned in Las Fallas, the most important yearly ...

What if China decided to sever American access to the drug ingredients your sick kid depends on? But America’s losing position in the biotechnology race with China has broader implications than just ...

The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to ...

Tens of thousands of tourists flock to Ireland each year for the St. Patrick’s Day Festival. But in the midst of the concerts ...

A map published by Earth System Science Data shows the dramatic decrease in forest-covered land in the United States since the 17th century. Before European ... began in the 19th century, driven ...

“Most of the other relevant treaties are old too — 19th century ... Canada and the European Union immediately announced retaliation. At 12:01 a.m. Thursday, Canada imposed additional ...

As pilgrims flocked to Santiago from across Europe in the first centuries C.E., they established ... duchies and kingdoms ...