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When 'The Great Plague' struck 17th Century England, one rural community took decisive action that was unusual for the time, but still fascinates centuries later. Video by the BBC's Howard ...

As the world says goodbye to 2024, many will be wondering what the next year will bring. However, some prophetic figures from ...

A magnificent Lily-Rose Depp is the convulsing, hysteric target of Bill Skarsgård’s vampire, in this star-studded adaptation co-starring Nicholas Hoult, Emma Corrin and Willem Dafoe ...

Syphilis originated in the Americas before Columbus's arrival, and European colonialism facilitated its global spread and ...

Willem Dafoe saw his first Robert Eggers film on a whim. It was 2016, and he was strolling past the Angelika theatre in New York City when a poster for The Witch, Eggers’ eerie 17th-century New ...

In Italy, an historic method of getting wine through a small window found new life during the pandemic, and now wine windows ...

The main theory, which went all the way back to Aristotle and ancient Greece, was that birds hibernated during the winter and ...

The director and production designer Craig Lathrop went down a historical rabbit hole to create a convincing setting for the ...

A picturesque rural village with only 15 houses is located less than an hour away from Liverpool. According to the website of ...

Hampole, a small village situated between Doncaster and South Elmsall, has an abundance of history. Much of this occurred ...