A rare 19th-century musical game - one of only three known to still be in existence and the only invention of any kind to be patented by a woman in that year - is to go on display to the public ...

Almost Unknown, The Afric-American Picture Gallery,” on view at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, presents—for the first time ever—William J. Wilson's idea.

On Wednesday, the Wisconsin supreme court ruled to overturn the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban, determining that a more recent law, criminalising abortions only when the fetus is viable ...

Archaeologists once assumed that men were responsible for seafaring trade in Papua New Guinea. New research shows how women played a fundamental role.

As a historical interpreter, researcher, artist, and designer, Cheyney McKnight incorporates 18th and 19th-century African American design skills to create pieces with a modern twist.

The Panopticon design involved a central watch tower, from which a single prison officer could observe the goings-on in the individual cell blocks that were ranged radially around the tower ...

A 19th Century workhouse, which has been described as a "bit of a blot", is being sold. The former Hexham Workhouse on Corbridge Road, which dates back to 1839, served as housing for the destitute ...

And unlike many Game of Thrones characters, the fate of the recent shipwreck find appears at least a little more upbeat.

Plans to convert a 19th century Rochdale pub into flats have been put back on the table. Royds Arms sits within a conservation area of Rochdale and has been vacant for more than a year. But when ...

All Living Things is one of those games I had to check out based on its look alone. It's an interactive alchemical picture ...

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

A classic Super Bowl tops the list of the best 25 games of the last 25 seasons.