J. R. R. Tolkien was a poet at heart. Charmed by the sound of language, he was influenced by everything from the poem The ...

There is a great deal of cynicism about Ulster Scots among unionists. Many consider it a desperately contrived counterweight ...

Today’s debates over immigration and assimilation have their roots in patterns of settlement that go back centuries.

The UK is building its first inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) following UK ratification of the 2003 UNESCO ...

A group of friends using metal detectors in Somerset stumbled on a buried hoard containing 2,584 medieval coins. Called the Chew Valley Hoard, the coins date from the years around the Norman Conquest ...

Thousands of Afrikaners, descendants of the first European settlers in South Africa, celebrated on Tuesday the "Day of the ...

In 2021, the headmaster of Dover College, a private school on the English south coast, began boasting in promotional ...

Many Christians worry that writing “Xmas” crosses Christ out of Christmas, but the story of the X is an ancient, deeply ...

"Thomas Midgley Jr. is practically a supervillain based on the sheer amount of human suffering he caused with his ...

She hated me, she hated Julie Andrews,” was Dick Van Dyke’s blunt assessment of PL Travers in the wake of Walt Disney’s ...

US President Donald Trump reignited controversy by openly repeating his past slur about “shithole countries” at a ...

Back in 2018, President Donald Trump disputed having used the epithet "shithole" to describe some countries whose citizens ...