The birthplace of 18th Century artist Thomas Gainsborough has launched an appeal to help preserve its collection of ...

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GWYNNE DYER The name is brilliant: ‘vintage tonnage’. It evokes 17th-century pirate vessels flying the skull-and-crossbones, 18th-century ships-of-the-line bristling with cannons, or even ...

Imagine a packed stadium, the roar of the crowd swelling as the national anthem plays. But instead of voices raised in song, ...

The incoming US leader’s terms to help end the war remain unclear as fighting rages in western Russia and east Ukraine.

A team from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research has uncovered a long-lost secret passageway from the time ...

Russia had decided to sell Alaska, but the question was: how would America buy it? At the time, most Americans couldn’t ...

How and why Russia ceded its control over Alaska to the United States 150 years ago is actually two tales and two ...

VILNIUS – Following Russia's renaming of the memorial museum of Kristijonas Donelaitis, a pioneer of Lithuanian literature, in a village in Kaliningrad Region to the Museum of Literature, President ...

A new documentary on BBC 2 will tell the story of an 18th Century water mill which was uncovered in the heart of Bristol.