Is 'House of Guinness' based on a true story? What's real and what's fictional in the Netflix show.

Netflix’s House of Guinness brings viewers to 1860s Dublin to follow siblings Arthur, Edward, Anne and Benjamin in the aftermath of the death of their father, Benjamin Guinness, the grandson of the ...

The geological origins of the American Revolution

Walden became the foundational text for the aesthetic strand of the American environmental movement. Its emphasis on nature’s ...
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Learning from the past: how historical tariffs have impacted the art market

History offers two key periods in which tariffs clearly affected the art market: the late 19th to early 20th centuries, and ...

‘Australia: A History’: How the gold rush brought together convicts, colonists and migrants as a brilliant nation was formed

In 1856, when the Victorian government imposed a large tax on each Chinese newcomer, the Chinese ingeniously thwarted it by landing at Robe in South Australia and walking, in large parties, roughly ...

They dominated Greater Manchester for decades - but in seconds they were gone

Dominating the landscape of Greater Manchester for decades, the giant concrete towers and chimneys of Agecroft Power Station ...