A Thousand Blows centres on Hezekiah Moscow (Malachi Kirby) and Alec Munroe (Francis Lovehall), best friends from Jamaica, who arrive in 1880s London and find themselves thrust into the bare-knuckle ...

In 1775, 250 years ago, William Withering, a physician practising in Birmingham, learnt of a folk remedy for dropsy involving the use of digitalis from purple foxgloves. He started to use it in his ...

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These beautiful United Kingdom train rides, selected by a local, will bring you through mountains, valleys, and fairy-tale villages.

PREMIUM Birmingham University on a sunny day ... She earned her PhD from Cambridge with a thesis on the industrial novel of the 19th century. Her father is also an academic, as is her on-again ...

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Birmingham's Curzon Street Station is to open ... new station being built since the 19th century, with the last being London Marylebone in 1899. Huw Edwards, stations executive director for ...

Today we're sharing a 'relocation box ticker' that's been named 'one of the best places to live' in our area. Even the name alone makes us want to pack our bags and move there. Barton-under-Needwood ...

President Trump tangled with its forecasters during his first term. As he slashes government spending, many wonder what that ...

Eighty years on from the devastating Allied bombings, the renaissance of this ‘Florence of the Elbe’ is complete ...

English Aristocrat Sir Philip Sidney wrote an essay titled “In Defense of Poesy.” In this text, he defends the value of ...