As the UK celebrates the writer's 250th birthday, there's never been a better time to explore the dramatic bluffs and picture ...

Many of us know that Japan took its Buddhism, its urban design, its flower-viewing rites and several of its art forms from China, often by way of Korea. You feel that influence today everywhere from ...

As politicians worldwide scramble to appeal to working people, this city in northern England has a claim to be the birthplace ...

The new exhibition, which examines the cultural, industrial, and ecological consequences of the whaling industry, opens later ...

‘In this generation, the religion that has defined the spiritual life, identity and culture ... meaning English – but he ...

A collection of Zimbabwean stone sculptures will be part of an Oxford exhibition meant to 'contextualize' the legacy of ...

"There is not a finer county in England than Derbyshire," wrote 19th-Century novelist ... by the Pope and spread Hawaiian culture across the globe. More than a century later, a festival dubbed ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

Palu, who is now the Pacific Catastrophe Risk Insurance Company (PCRIC) chief executive, was presenting his paper about various international funding that Tonga could tap into. He used his own ...

Packaged as a whole-grain health food in the late 1800s, cereal began to evolve ... of sugar prices and rise of mass production in the 19th century. The word itself comes from qandi: Arabic ...

Mercifully, he is more disciplined than that, starting his elegant volume with the 1800 Act of Union between Britain and ... Cannadine attempts to awaken 19th-century British history from a state of ...