When Giuseppe Torelli made the journey from his birthplace of Verona to Bologna in the late 17th century, the trumpet was ...

A few miles from East London's perennially hip neighbourhoods, an explosion of art and culture is transforming a ...

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Babylon cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s ...

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Robert K Batchelor (author of an academic monograph just published on the map and 17th-century London), noticed a reference to it in an old library catalogue and called it up. The map’s rediscovery ...

A bizarre experience inspired local author Nina Albanese-Kotar to write "Castor and Pollux," her newly released debut novel.

One of the lessons of “‘I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer,’” Mary Beth Norton’s delightful compendium of 17th-century advice ... which John Dunton, a London printer, started in 1691.

The game was played here by 17th-century London aristocrats. Confusingly, the English version of the game was called “pell mell,” not pall mall. The Mall is also sounded “Mal,” so that’s ...

An expert has uncovered compelling evidence that suggests the 'beautiful game' may have actually originated in Scotland some 200 years before the English started officially playing it.

READ MORE - Central line trains will not stop at east London station platform for two months Over the coming weeks, we’ll be using maps to tell you the story of each of London’s Tube lines.