Beginning at the Present, in 1868, Little Women introduces the protagonists as adults leading their own lives. It then takes the viewers back to the past in 1861. As both timelines proceed ...

When he died in 2012, his son, Iain became the 12th and current Duke. Like his late father, he lives in South Africa but does make annual visits. Read more How soldiers in Europe's only private ...

Victor Karady, Elite Formation in the Other Europe (19th-20th Century), Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung, Vol. 33, No. 2 (124), Elite Formation in the Other Europe (19th-20th ...

The 19th century is often referred to as the “dark century” for child labor exploitation. In factories, children worked 13 to 15 hours a day, performing tasks that no machine could replicate.

Although the thermal spas have long been an attraction, it is was the frequent visits of French Emperor Napoleon III that put Vichy, France, on the map in the second half of the 19th century.

But by the end of the 19th century, the industrial social-economic order that tariffs helped foster were quite different from what earlier protectionists had promised. To help distinguish promises ...

By 1888 he had built almost 50 roller coasters in Europe and America. Among these was Dragon's Gorge, which recapitulated his ethical stance in an assortment of scenic views from the Bible.

Consisting of 26 short chapters packed with shrewd, cynical advice drawn from myth, history and its author’s experience as a Florentine diplomat to the courts of Europe, Machiavelli’s manual ...