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 Billings Gazette

Full steam ahead as Britain marks the bicentenary of a world-changing rail journey

On Sept. 27, 1825, the first steam-powered railway engine to run on a public railway — George Stephenson's Locomotion No. 1 — made its 26-mile journey on the Stockton & Darlington Railway between ...
The Art Newspaper

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 ...