A descendant of the historic lords of Millom Manor is set to visit the town as part of a research project tracing the legacy of one of Cumbria’s most prominent noble families. Elizabeth Barrett, a PhD ...

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Wikimedia Commons/Unknown author New Sweden Most people think the first log cabins in America came from pioneers heading west ...

Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is stitched together from the nastiest bits of actual history. Drawing on Puritan ...

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The town of Port Royal is located at the mouth of Kingston Harbour in southeastern Jamaica. It was a major 17th-century English port city. A devastating earthquake in 1692 submerged much of the town ...

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