Vermont becomes first U.S. territory to abolish slavery. By 1783, New Hampshire and Massachusetts had followed Vermont’s lead ...

My regular readers will know that I love history. I also love a well-researched novel about British royalty and the Tudor ...

Roman and Visigoth forces defeat Attila the Hun in north east France. 1214: The University of Oxford receives its ...

One of the most influential contributors to modern language, Samuel Johnson's Dictionary is celebrating its 250th anniversary. As the Royal Mint marks the occasion by releasing a special set of 50p ...

Samuel Johnson is one of Australia's best-known actors. Although he is probably best known for the role of Evan on The Secret Life of Us, he also played Molly Meldrum in the biographical movie Molly.

LONDON CHILDREN'S BALLET: A talented company of 50 young dancers, aged 9-16, performs new production Ella’s Big Chance: A Jazz-Age Cinderella, based on an original story by Shirley Hughes.

From 'Moonlight' to 'Parasite,' documentaries to superhero epics — our picks for the greatest movies of the past 25 years ...

As a design polymath – working across fashion, industrial design and architecture, through his two firms A-COLD-WALL* and SR_A SR_A – Dr Samuel Ross MBE is well placed to reflect on the potential of a ...

Our critics pick 11 outstanding exhibitions — many still on view this summer —and tour the renewed Frick Collection and the ...

This 1860s Victorian in east London is the only place she saw. Call it an actor’s intuition, but she knew it in her gut. “It had a really lovely feeling,” she recalls.

A violent thug who killed a “gentle and kind” man with a single punch on the London Underground after he briefly bump into ...