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It’s easy to forget how recently women in many parts of the world were granted the right to vote — and just how uneven the journey to...

It began with a calling card, scrawled with a misspelled insult, and ended in a prison cell. The most celebrated playwright in London,...

In an age when spectacle was king and public fascination with “human curiosities” filled theatre seats from New York to New Zealand, one...

For more than 30 years, Mary Filan — a widowed 74-year-old woman semi-paralysed from a recent stroke — had lived in Apartment 6B, 143-15...

At the dawn of the 20th century, Beach Haven had the feel of a seaside postcard come to life. Situated at the southern tip of Long Beach...

When it opened its doors in May 2007, Dickens World promised visitors the chance to step directly into the fog-shrouded, gaslit streets...

There was once a time when Parisians traded the grand boulevards and zinc-topped cafés of the capital for something rather more...

In 2008, the Metropolitan Museum of Art received an extraordinary bequest from Columbia University librarian Herbert Mitchell, a lifelong...

When The Beatles burst onto the global stage in the early 1960s, they didn’t simply ride the wave of pop culture—they redirected its...

Known to many as the dancer who took Paris by storm in the 1920s, Josephine Baker’s story is one of dazzling reinvention and fearless...

“Criminals are made, not born.” That was the message painted on a charred wooden sign left behind on the fence of Andrew Kehoe’s farm in...

When you think of Aldous Huxley, the author of Brave New World , The Doors of Perception , and one of the most articulate advocates for...

In the golden era of French coachbuilding, when cars were as much objets d’art as they were machines, one creation stood above the rest...

In 1927, five-year-old Vertus Hardiman took part in what was described as a harmless medical treatment. Decades later, he revealed a secret he had hidden beneath his hat for nearly 80 years — a radiation wound from a government experiment that left him scarred for life. His story exposes one of the darkest chapters in American medical history.

Discover the unmatched skill of Led Zeppelin’s John Bonham through his iconic Moby Dick solo. Explore his bass triplets, barehanded solos, and lasting influence.

Zorita was more than a performer. She was an emblem of the rebellious, sensuous, and often subversive energy that defined American...

In 1932, Paul Strand arrived in Mexico at a pivotal moment in the country’s modern history. He did not come as a casual tourist or...

It’s hard to truly grasp what it must have felt like to stand on the deck of a wooden convict transport ship in May 1787, looking back at...

Most people know Daryl Davis as a talented blues pianist who has played with legends like Chuck Berry and B B King. But off stage, Davis...

In the sweltering summer of 1945, as the embers of World War II cooled and the ruins of Europe still smouldered, a quiet convoy wound its...

Picture this: you’re curled up on the sofa after a long day, nursing a bar of chocolate like it’s the last form of pleasure available to...

They tore through the streets of Mayfair in gleaming motorcars, flung pearls around their necks like confetti, and threw parties so...

In the early hours of 2 September 1983, a man named Jimmy Lee Gray sat strapped to a metal chair in Mississippi’s gas chamber. Within...

The year is 1988 and the Iron Curtain is slowly crumbling. The Soviet Union, a nation long known for its austere ideology and strict...