This brick beauty is like a time machine with a porch! Photo credit: Charlie Chapman This isn’t your run-of-the-mill, stuffy ...

As shown in the map below, the sakura are expected first in Tokyo (東京), where the first blossoms are predicted to open on March 21, three days earlier than average. Following the nation’s capital, the ...

1830. A letter arrives at Chawton Cottage, where Cassandra Austen has lived alone for many years since the death of her sister Jane. Show more 1830. A letter arrives at Chawton Cottage ...

The 21st century pharmaceutical and biotech sector has come a long way from its roots in 19th century pharmacy ... An advert for Bayer's Aspirin from the early 20th century Bayer had the aspirin ...

A woman about to charge her electric car 112 years ago. Credit: Museum of Innovation and Science Electric cars are making a strong comeback from the early 20th century, which was the golden age for ...

Jane Austen’s letters describe a two-year deterioration into bed-ridden exhaustion, with unusual colouring, bilious attacks and rheumatic pains. In 1964, Zachary Cope postulated tubercular Addison’s ...

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