For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

In 1848 or thereabouts, a talented artist painted an almost life-size group portrait of the three children of one of the ...

The American Philosophical Society in Old City is using AI to transcribe thousands of Revolutionary-era documents.

Archivists say that if you have Scottish ancestors there is a “very good chance” one of them is mentioned in the tax rolls.

Lingering in Amiens’ watery Saint-Leu district, my mother and I reflected on how much can be fitted into a five-day train-hopping holiday in northern France. Our jumping-off point was Lille, a hub for ...

Lawyers for the Trump administration and immigrants are sparring in court over whether President Donald Trump can use an 18th ...

Unusually, Clément makes Figaro, superbly sung by baritone Michael Nagl, into a lovable rogue who is slightly dim – and it’s ...

At Chirk Castle, a full-length portrait of a servant from the 18th century reveals its secrets; in Oxburgh Hall, on the edge of the Norfolk Fenlands, two rare hidden treasures are brought back into ...

Britain’s George III has gotten a bad rap. He was not the all-powerful monarch that President Trump allegedly aspires to be.