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The Peters Creek Historical Society owns and maintains the house, built in 1815-16, as a multifaceted link to the past.

Why Joseph Wright’s An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump continues to resonate.

Our critic enjoys a restaurant where British produce is cooked with considerable panache

Authors: Abel Escribà-Folch, Joseph Wright, and Covadonga Meseguer In the growing body of work on democracy, little attention has been paid to its links with migration. Migration and Democracy focuses on the effects of worker remittances—money sent by migrants back to their home countries—and how these resources shape political action in the Global South. Remittances are not

The latest in my Volcano Profiles Series, we turn to Europe and Vesuvius. You could fill many, many volumes with the works produced on Vesuvius since Roman times.

The accident happened just before 10 p.m. on Christmas Eve

By CoinWeek .....   On December 19, bidding ends on this “Museum Quality” 1796 Liberty Cap Cent in the latest GreatCollections sale. As the finest

With more and more plastic ending up in landfill or in our oceans, companies are looking for greener alternatives. Packaging made from seaweed or mushroom mycelia could help the environment and curb our insatiable appetite for plastic.

People are being given the chance to adopt a piece of history to support the funding of family activites in Derbyshire museums.

Things went badly for German art dealer Hans Wendland in 1931. For one thing, there was a Depression on, and for another Wendland was getting a divorce. Wendland wasn’t a terrific guy—he lost an early museum job when he was accused of personally profiting off material he acquired while working for the museum, and he appears to have profiteered during the Russian Revolution by purchasing art from fleeing aristocracy. And his divorce may have been the result of his meeting the much-younger wom...