The Louisiana Purchase of 1803 sparked a new wave of exploration in the United States as a number of expeditions were commissioned at the direction of President Thomas Jefferson to ...

What happened to Beverley's medieval waterways and why were women publicly punished at its town centre pond? The BBC's Hidden East Yorkshire podcast has been taking a deep dive in search of the ...

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated ...

The former Cesena man states he was aware of Blackburn Rovers’ history and their fans even before joining them. “I had an idea about Blackburn before I signed. I knew the history of the club ...

The public furore over the state of Britain’s rivers, lakes and seas continues to grow. The country’s waterways are awash with pollution from sewage, agriculture and motorways, threatening ...

When the UK joined the EU in the 70s it was known as the 'dirty man of Europe'. The i Paper looks at the data to see if anything has changed Rubbish left stranded by the tide on the River Thames ...

Iowa’s state climatologist says he’s concerned about river levels across the region. Justin Glisan tells Brownfield he’s been tracking the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. “They still continue to be ...

Picture: Supplied Rivers’ website still shouts its proud history, dating back to 1863 when Joe Paddle and his sons started manufacturing shoes from their Charlton property. It wasn’t until ...

Google has said it will be updating its maps to change the "Gulf of Mexico ... start to see a lot of names being changed for places in history, it often signals major political changes or power ...

A pair of substitutes helped Swindon Town to a mad three-minute comeback to defeat nine-man Tranmere Rovers 3-1. Josh Davison scored from an improbable angle after just seven minutes to give ...