Simon Roper explained how the standard British accent was developed in the 1700s by aristocrats to distinguish themselves ...

Hypochondriacs have a poor reputation. The novels of Jane Austen, for example, contain numerous characters who use their ill ...

For almost 132 years, the lake hid the wreckage. In July, explorers from the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society ...

Farming was how land was made rich; wealth was how it was made. There were numerous forces at work in England starting in the 1600s and going into the 1700s. Including the commons, lords and royal ...

Editions of the Belfast News Letter from the 18th to the 20th centuries are to be digitised as part of a new project.