What caused the Great Smog of 1952?
Seventy-one years ago today, London was plunged into the ‘Great Smog’. Over the course of the next five days, some 4,000 people would die as a dir...
Seventy-one years ago today, London was plunged into the ‘Great Smog’. Over the course of the next five days, some 4,000 people would die as a dir...
Nowadays, Big Ben is a worldwide tourist attraction and a fixture of the London skyline. What you might not know, however, is that the impressive...
Ahead of the release of the new film Napoleon, we take a look at St. Helena, the island where the late French emperor spent his final days. ...
From the mysterious Uncle Bob to the real McCoy and an intelligent Alec, the English language has plenty of examples of dictionary characters. This...
It's that time of year. Roughly 70 different countries now change their clocks, especially those further away from the equator. It means many of us...
Its existence dates back millennia, but its origins remain shrouded in mystery. Nowadays, this sprawling subterranean city is known as Derinkuyu (or...
It’s impossible to say when exactly humans began enjoying performing arts or when the first stage was erected, but the first permanent theater was i...
An innocuous-looking hole in a door at a cathedral in southern England is now thought to be the world’s oldest cat flap, with archives dating back t...
The bicycle has evolved massively over the last 200 years, as inventors have honed the design into the sleek, lightweight and even electric vehicles...
It’s late September and summer is behind us, but at least it was fun while it lasted. Were we living back in the year 1816, we would have barely e...
For the best part of 5,000 years, the Royal Game of Ur was forgotten. Once a popular game in the ancient Sumerian civilization of Mesopotamia, it...
Looking down on the picturesque old town of Heidelberg stands an impressive castle dating back to the 13th century. The structure’s tumultuous h...