Plans to convert a 19th century Rochdale pub into flats have been put back on the table. Royds Arms sits within a conservation area of Rochdale and has been vacant for more than a year.

On Wednesday, the Wisconsin supreme court ruled to overturn the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban, determining that a more recent law, criminalising abortions only when the fetus is viable ...

Wisconsin's top state court ruled on Wednesday that an 1849 state law banning abortion in virtually all cases cannot be enforced, rejecting claims it had been revived after a landmark U.S. Supreme ...

A rare 19th-century musical game - one of only three known to still be in existence and the only invention of any kind to be patented by a woman in that year - is to go on display to the public ...

More than 5,000 people have signed an online petition opposing plans to develop 25-hectare mussel farm in Kinsale Harbour, saying the operation will not only harm the harbour but wreck it for ...

The second half of the 19th century was a particularly interesting time to imagine Mars. This was a period during which the red planet seemed to be ready to give up some of its mystery.

Initial efforts to locate a 19th century anti-slavery scroll were unsuccessful — until they looked in a church closet.

Wool coats and 19th century hats: See costumes soldiers will wear at big Army parade Of the 7,000 soldiers from bases around the world that will appear in the parade, around a thousand will don ...

The 19th-century ghost town is now hidden within a state park.

19th-century Supreme Court case takes center stage in birthright citizenship appeal The Supreme Court's 1898 ruling in United States v. Wong Kim Ark granted citizenship to the American-born child of ...

Mystery solved! Skeletal remains along Jersey shore tied to 19th-century shipwreck The mystery was solved thanks to investigative genetic genealogy at Ramapo College of New Jersey.

Once there, you’ll disembark at the town of Mackinac Island, walking into a bustling street of horse-drawn carriages, bicycles and pedestrians, flanked by buildings suitable for the 19th century.