Manuel Miranda’s stage phenomenon, but despite how many words there are in Hamilton, his life was too complex to cover fully.

As scrutiny falls on the ages of primary candidates in the US presidential campaign, Matt Elton speaks to historians Rana ...

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Greg Jenner’s hit series returns with an episode recorded at the Hay Festival. The topic under discussion is book printing in medieval England. Comedian Robin Ince is on hand to supply gags, while ...

In July 1776, during the second year of the American Revolutionary War (1775–83), representatives from 13 North American colonies of the kingdom of Great Britain voted to declare themselves ...

Who was Marie Curie and what is she famous for? Marie Curie is a Polish-born physicist and chemist who is remembered for being the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize, in 1903 for her research ...

What is the Declaration of Independence? Approved by Congress on 4 July 1776, the Declaration of American Independence stated that America’s 13 colonies were to be “absolved from all allegiance to the ...

The battle was the bloodiest clash of the American Civil War and a decisive victory for General George Meade’s Union forces over Robert E Lee’s Confederates. Prince Rupert’s royalist troops were just ...

With its ability to generate heat, create light, cook food, sterilise water, transform materials and more, fire is a resource ...

On 10 March 1914, a dramatic act of protest rocked the quiet halls of the National Gallery in London. Mary Richardson, a ...