Household knives varied in pattern over the centuries. Until towards the end of the 17th century, cutlery for dining was limited to a knife and a spoon and everyone carried their own with them. All ...

In 1964 after the heirs established the P.L. Hay Foundation, Davis became the first tour guide and docent when they opened up the family home to the public. He was hired by the Georgia Trust when it ...

Plasterwork, mantels, built-ins, wainscoting, stained glass, and even a period elevator are all on display in the Cambridge, ...

Miles Franklin went undercover to investigate the ‘servant question’. The exploitation she saw continues today.

The theatre offered queer Victorian men a space to express their identities, at a time when homosexuality was criminalised.

The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the ...

Every time I read that the strategy of the Trump team is “shock and awe” — a rapid, massive, multifront takeover of the U.S.

“ The earliest known toilets date back to Mesopotamia some 5,000 years ago, but they were far from what we know today,” ...

Formerly an obscure officer in the British army, Captain Boycott was the land agent for an absentee landlord, Lord Erne, a ...

Weakening the professional civil service could turn back the clock to an era when government was rife with corruption.

In the 19th century, this lost American boomtown shipped 15 train cars of sturgeon roe daily. Here's the surprising story of ...

Kapaun is one of five servants of God who will be proclaimed venerable by the Catholic Church. The others are Italian layman Salvo D’Acquisto; Michele Maura Montaner, a 19th-century Spanish ...