Traveling to Lincoln from Boston, Higginbotham said her grandfather, the Rev. Walter Henderson Brooks, was born a slave in 1851. He “worked” for a tobacco company in Richmond, Virginia.

Here’s a slightly irreverent look at some of those famous folk with less known Yorkshire roots. So not Patrick Stewart, Sean ...

If you are unfamiliar with the name prior to tuning in to watch Channel 4’s Brian and Maggie, he was a major figure in ...

About 30 other people suffered injuries. University Medical Center New Orleans ... One was 31-year-old Edward Pettifer of west London, according to London’s Metropolitan Police.

A 31-year-old British man, a mother of a four-year-old boy and a Princeton University football player ... Edward Pettifer, 31, was from Chelsea in west London. His death was confirmed by the ...

About 30 other people suffered injuries. University Medical Center New Orleans ... One was 31-year-old Edward Pettifer of west London, according to London’s Metropolitan Police.

It's a rapidly changing situation - these maps and pictures show the scale of the challenge, where the fires are and the ...

Cambridge Footlights left to right: Stephen Fry, Tony Slattery, Emma Thompson, Paul Shearer, Penny Dwyer and Hugh Laurie Born into a working class family in North London in 1959, Slattery won a ...

American University provides ... isolated individuals in the West into deadly instruments of violence. The New Year’s Day attack took place in New Orleans’ famous French Quarter.

Prior to Manchester she worked at the University of Liverpool, the Policy Studies Institute, and the former Department of Employment in London. She studied Sociology ... an online survey completed by ...

Stephens' formal title will be "his excellency" and people informally will refer to him for the rest of his life as Mr. Ambassador. He will work out of the American Embassy in the Nine Elms ...

Leading lights of the UK's psychedelic revolution, Hawkwind's early days were a fug of good trips, bad trips, free-form chaos ...