In 1958, the clubby world of London art dealers got a jolt as Sotheby’s changed the way the auction business was done.

March 15 is associated with misfortune and doom. On this day, Roman dictator Julius Caesar was murdered at the hands of ...

Russia’s seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine exactly 11 years ago on March 18, 2014, was quick and bloodless, but it sent Moscow’s relations with the West into a downward spiral unseen since ...

The Irish Northern Aid Committee — Noraid, as it was generally known — was accused of involvement in various activities to ...

So when conscription officers came to their village one day and singled out Ogunde for the war – a war they had never heard ...

Every year, bills are introduced in state legislatures across the country seeking to end the changing of clocks twice a year.

A man from Guernsey said he was almost evacuated during the Second World War as a child before his mother had "second thoughts". Hirzel Dorey, now 91, was six years old when World War Two began ...

The front third of a full-scale Concorde aircraft will be up for sale A full-size replica of the front a Concorde aircraft is just one of the items up for auction after the closure of a theme park ...

Take for instance, British uniforms and how they are strict in nature–show notes point to them as a core influence. After speaking with style aficionados throughout the nation, many of them have ...

One such message is how he came into possession of 30 tons of clothing buttons from a defunct British factory ... laden catchphrases across World War II military stretchers and tents.

And in the early 1900s, British homebuilder William Willett ... Other countries, including the United States, soon followed suit. During World War II, the U.S. once again instituted what was dubbed ...