Jerrad Wyche is a writer, designer, and producer hailing from Albuquerque, New Mexico. His favorite video games include Mass Effect 2, Inside, Pokémon Soul Silver, Spelunky, and Call of Duty 4: Modern ...

In the late 1980s, local activists were scrambling to protect Sutton House, a 500-year-old Tudor manor house in Hackney, East London. Amid the restoration efforts, workers salvaged hundreds of pieces ...

Discover the fascinating origins of a unique 17th century dessert in this video. Watch as two men react to a mesmerizing ...

Thinking about getting a Middle Eastern Studies degree? Mehmet Durmaz, a master's student at Harvard is here to tell you why ...

One September morning in 1682, a bizarre advertisement appeared in the pages of the London Gazette. Readers learned of a missing person: a “young Lady of a Fair Complexion, fair Haired [and] full ...

Another groundbreaking discovery in science was the discovery of the cell by Robert Hooke (1635-1703). The iconic image of the breakthrough, published in the first scientific bestseller, 1665’s ...

A new examination of a pre-industrial Scottish natural history book gives a new understanding of post-industrial environmental change in the country. In a new paper published in the Royal Society ...

A 17th-century painting showing a Black woman with her White companion has been placed under a temporary export bar to reduce the risk of the artwork leaving the United Kingdom. The anonymous painting ...

Calling all witches and warlocks … or library enthusiasts. Chicago’s Newberry Library is crowdsourcing translations for three 17th-century manuscripts of spells, charms and magic. Handwritten in ...

This period Cotswolds stone house on a chalk escarpment in the Ozleworth valley in southern Gloucestershire, was recently converted from a tithe barn by its builder owner. Modern wiring, underfloor ...

A 400-year-old tower in Aberdeen which is set to open after standing derelict for the last 27 years will help "provide an opportunity for pride in the community", according to campaigners.

Sid was born, did some stuff, then decided to become a writer. He finds respite in the sweet embrace of mass media escapism after having risked his life too many times as a journalist covering ...