Statistics is just one way to tell the tale of the infamous Salem witch trials. In just 16 months between February 1692 and May 1693, up to 200 people—mostly women—were accused of practicing ...

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A Scottish family-owned hotel company has purchased a country house dating from the seventeenth century. It follows a previous acquisition in the region by the Edinburgh-based company.

There were hunting werewolves. In many ways, the people of 16th and 17th-century Europe imagined the werewolf as the ultimate violator of cultural, moral, and religious norms. But unlike their ...

Anthony Martin, 25, scooped the keys to a 17th century, five-bedroom property complete ... I’m looking forward to diving into the pool and hosting all my friends and family in such an amazing ...

The painting discovered in the attic of a barn in Connecticut nearly three decades ago was all but impossible to recognize. “It was filthy, black, dirty,” George Wachter, the chairman of ...

BOXING & WRESTLING. For most of the 19th century, the contact sports of boxing and wrestling were frowned on by the educated public and were seldom written about by Cleveland newspapers. As Cleveland ...

Portrait of a Boy was painted by Dutch master Ferdinand Bol in the 17th century, which shows an eight-year-old boy standing in the foreground holding a goblet while resting his other hand on his hip.

A 17th-century viola with links to the English Civil War has been loaned to students as they continue a campaign to prevent the closure of courses. At the beginning of May, Newark’s School of Musical ...

A 17th century Peak District pub with overnight accommodation in one of Derbyshire’s most picturesque villages has just gone on the market with an asking price of £1million. Did you know with ...

There are no plans to reintroduce a window tax in Britain, the government says, nearly 175 years after the levy was abolished. The tax, which varied according to the number of windows in a ...