Despite the pronunciation being deemed 'non-standard' by the Merriam-Webster dictionary, Countdown's Susie Dens believes it ...

Contra dancing originated in English court dances way back in the 1500s and it’s still danced today in Seattle, in some ways ...

Catholic worshippers have for weeks flocked to Alba de Tormes, a town ringed by rolling pastures in western Spain where the ...

They lined up to see her, silent and wonderstruck: Inside an open silver casket was Saint Teresa of Ávila, more than 440 ...

As Smithsonian reports, a new study published in the journal American Antiquity links America’s first domestic cats to a 16th-century shipwreck ... enslaved people, and Aztec Indians on his ...

Is loneliness a modern epidemic as we are so often told? Did people in the past suffer similar feelings of isolation?

Forget flogging the family silver, the private owners of today's stately homes and castles are preserving their future ...

Famous astrologer Nostradamus made a series of chilling predictions about 2025 and we could see wars, plague and the end of ...

There exists today a tiny enclave of Calabrian Greeks, Greek-speaking people in Reggio Calabria, Italy, that seem to have survived millennia.

The idea that a good leaders need to be able to manipulate others to serve their will underlies popular ideas about success.

While these numbers are low, their successes show rewilding cities can and does work. Beavers now swim in a wetland in London ...