It may not sound like the best of ideas: combining the consumption of ale with the throwing of sharp objects at a small ...

Watford Observer local history columnist Lesley Dunlop looks back at the links between Corran School in Watford and the Moberly-Jourdain incident.

Middletown officials kicked off Black History Month Saturday morning by naming a street after a man who spent most of his ...

Since the late 18th century, small colonies of bats have guarded the books in the Joanina Library at the University of Coimbra in central Portugal. The library contains 60,000 books that are all ...

When the 18th century church planter, evangelist and foreign missionary George Liele was imprisoned in Jamaica, he spread the ...

The Greek document details a court case in ancient Palestine involving tax fraud and provides insight into trial preparations in the Roman Empire ...

Quantum Theatre’s new production will shine a light on a historical rebel you won’t find in textbooks. Benjamin Lay was an ...

Bennett Parten, a Royston native and assistant professor of history at Georgia Southern University, has done the research and concluded that Georgia was the site of the biggest liberation event in ...

In his latest book, A Perfect Frenzy, local author Andrew Lawler reexamines the America Revolution and spotlights a lesser-known story from the United State's founding.

Tumacacori National Historical Park isn’t just another dusty old ruin – it’s a time machine disguised as a day trip ...

The first controlled clinical trial recorded in the modern age, carried out in 1747 to test treatments for scurvy, may have drawn inspiration from the nephew of Sir Isaac Newton's laboratory assistant ...