Early Dutch ships heading for the Spice Islands (today’s Indonesia) often slipstreamed across the Indian Ocean on the Roaring ...

A sprawling Baroque-style palace nestled amid parkland in the village of Drogosze, in the north of Poland, Château de ...

The truth is you could have fair, warmish weather (close to 20C and above) anytime between early April and late October. And ...

With centuries of history and tradition governing their very existences, it's no surprise that the royal residences are ...

The picture had been hanging in a gallery in the city's Residenz, where many overflow artworks from the museum are kept ... a period when Cromwell was facing military challenges in Scotland and ...

A Glasgow museum that is Scotland's oldest is to begin a long programme of redevelopment after receiving a £249,000 grant. The Hunterian Museum and the Hunterian Art Gallery at the University of ...

Image: A horse-drawn sledge in Balerno c.1903. Pic: National Museums Scotland Pioneering photographer Lady Henrietta Gilmour took up the craft after the birth of her seventh and last child in 1889.

Exciting new properties are popping up in both city and countryside, including a motel-meets-diner in Manchester, a ...

Scotland’s oldest public museum has received a funding boost with a £249,000 grant from The National Lottery Heritage Fund. The Hunterian at the University of Glasgow will now be able to carry ...

The acquisition was announced four years after metal detectorist Mariusz Stepien uncovered the hoard in a field.

Suzy Pope If Edinburgh Castle and Holyroodhouse Palace don't quench your thirst for some Scottish history, take a trip to the National Museum of Scotland. The museum houses a collection of tens of ...

The year's most exciting discoveries included musket balls fired in the early days of the American Revolution, a lost ...