This week, the show travels back to the American Revolution to explore the science of the weapons used by all sides.

Montrose in Angus became pivotal to events in the 1745 Jacobite rising given the deep harbour and pool of men ready to lend their support to Prince Charles Edward Stuart.

Queen Elizabeth II famously celebrated two birthdays every year. However, there's a very practical reason behind the royal ...

A show at the Met offers a feminist revision of Chinoiserie, a decorative style that swept through Europe in the age of ...

CSO and The Joffrey Ballet: 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday, April 10-11, and 3 p.m. Sunday, April 13, at the Chicago Symphony ...

Daniel Bayard's "Triumph to Tragedy" five-book saga traces back to a Haitian ancestor from 1689 and explores Haiti from ...

From the 1200s to the 1700s, the custom of Christian tattooing was prevalent in Europe among peasants, seafarers, soldiers and artisans as much as among nuns and monks. They were getting crosses, ...

There’s always been more to Staffordshire figurines than decorative value and Nick Cave’s The Devil – A Life is part of a ...

But for two decades in the 1700s, Great Britain controlled the region ... City archeologists identified a dry moat last fall of a British redoubt, a fortified military outpost, that had been ...

Defence Secretary John Healey met Agnes Wanjiru’s family on Monday (Oli Scarff/PA) The family of a woman allegedly killed by a British soldier have said after meeting the Defence Secretary that ...

The body of 21-year-old Agnes Wanjiru was found in a septic tank in Kenya close to a British Army base two months after she disappeared in March 2012. Defence Secretary John Healey met Agnes ...

The family of a woman allegedly killed by a British soldier have said after meeting the Defence Secretary that they have been subject to “too many empty promises” regarding investigations into ...