Bavaria's fairy-tale royal castles, including Neuschwanstein, Herrenchiemsee and Linderhof, have been added to the UNESCO ...

Museums are great places to escape to. That’s obvious. An antidote to the daily grind, to highways and traffic jams and to current affairs, they have air conditioning, clean bathrooms, cafes. You ...

Historic Trappe is delighted for the launch of its Pennsylvania Antiques Show, a new event highlighting the best of Americana ...

S OME 120 years on, few remember the outrage provoked by the awarding of the Nobel peace prize to Theodore Roosevelt, the ...

But Germany’s citizenship law, still partly rooted in 19th century ideas of descent by blood, failed to keep pace, forcing most would-be Germans to renounce their birth citizenship after waiting ...

Jeffrey Sachs comments on how closely 21st-century U.S. policy towards the Russian Federation mirrors how the 19th-century British Empire approached the Russian Empire. "We make up stories about ...

(The Conversation) — The most recent Pope Leo’s writings about workers’ rights amid the Industrial Revolution form the foundation of modern Catholic social teachings.

A man's lifetime collection of 'risqué' antique toys from 19th century Germany has sold at auction, fetching nearly £200k ...

Introduction to some of the elements of the Industrial Revolution, more on this subject to come! The economic developments of the 1800s saw the development of agrarian and handicraft economies in ...