Smithfield means ‘smooth field’ and, though the Romans called it by a different name, they recognised that this green expanse was too useful to be covered in houses.

Whistler’s paintings were first compared to music in 1863 when the French critic Paul Manz described his haunting portrait, ...

King Harold II, one of the subjects of the Bayeux Tapestry, was famously killed in the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

Newcastle University announced the discovery of Harold Godwinson's – aka King Harold II – residence in Bosham, a village on ...

Widely considered the leading Baptist preacher in west Kentucky at the turn of the 20th century, John Newton Hall had an ...

Rae Stockham, a class of 1907 Drake University Drake (a male duck, the University’s original mascot), grew up in a house with ...