Five years without the City of Love’s cultural icon is a loss – but also an opportunity to discover some of quirky, under-the ...

These days England often gets a bad press but this “land of lovely things”, as Arthur Mee described it, has given the world ...

Two legends have haunted the Isles of Shoals since colonial days. According to Capt. Christopher Levett, who visited from ...

From hilltop citadels to fortified coastal enclaves, we've scoured the world to find the most captivating walled cities, and ...

A facsimile of the 17th-century Dutch documents that ... gnawing by rats drawn to paper paste, leaky ship holds, creeping mildew, seizure by the English and a catastrophic 1911 state Capitol ...

If you want to visit a quintessential British seaside town while also skipping the crowds, then take a trip to this quiet ...

The “picture telegraph” was a precursor to the fax machine, which took more than a century to become an indispensable device in every office (before being replaced by email). The British fair, which ...

The memorial contains an effigy of Anne and an inscription A rare memorial for a one-month-old baby who died in the 17th Century is being moved into public view after being rediscovered.

"Today we put in a part of the new support structure, one cradle, and it's needed because the ship needs better support ... the new structure around the 17th century warship.

A Swedish museum has launched a massive four-year project to preserve the sagging hull of the Vasa, a majestic warship that sank nearly 400 years ago and is now one of Sweden's most popular tourist ...

Robbie Williams has revealed he was diagnosed with scurvy after rapid weight loss caused by taking an appetite suppressant — describing the condition as a “17th-century pirate disease.” The ...