A Christmas Carol has never been out of print since but, despite the first run selling out within 6 days, high production costs due to his very specific requirements meant that the profits were smaller than Dickens had hoped ...

French aristocrat Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat set the world’s first officially recognised land speed ...

The British government had passed the Tea Act seven months earlier on 10 May, partly in an attempt to support the struggling East India ...

In the medieval period the Netherlands, whose name literally means ‘lower countries’, consisted of large areas of boggy land around the winding estuaries of three of the largest rivers in ...

Although accurate figures are impossible to establish, most scholars estimate that between 40,000 to over 300,000 people died as a result of the massacre in ...

Kenya had been under British rule since the 19th Century, and since becoming a colony in 1920 African demands for a greater role in politics had ...

It is estimated that up to a quarter of a million different units of measurement were in use throughout France at eve of the Revolution in 1789, and that these differed not only from trade to trade but also from town to ...

Theatre in England had been banned by the Puritan Long Parliament in 1642 but, following the restoration of the monarchy under Charles II, the ban was ...

Meredith Hunter was killed at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival during a performance by the Rolling ...

Mary Celeste had departed New York on 7 ...