Why on earth would anyone throw a perfectly good, cocked and loaded flintlock musket into a privy ... of run-down and dilapidated 18th- and 19th-century buildings. During Old Town Alexandria ...

Stoke has the hallmarks of a post-industrial city: bottle kilns poke out over rows of terrace roofs and business units mingle ...

A creative city built on coal and clay, Stoke-on-Trent has been at the centre of Britain’s ceramics industry since the mid-17th century ... extra special, the Flintlock at Cheddleton is the ...

Once referred to as poor man’s port, sloe gin came to prominence during the 17th century as a result of the rise in gin ... Among its range are the Sidelock and Flintlock Gins as well as its Glorious ...

An exceptionally rare 17th-century painting featuring a Black woman and a white woman side by side has gone on public display for the first time at Compton Verney, a historic manor in the English ...

Pennsylvania’s flintlock-only deer season, begun in 1973, is the last of its kind in America. While most of today’s hunters tote modern in-line muzzleloaders, each January, Keystone State ...

Diver Levin Shavers holds a rare flintlock found as a salvage team explored a shipwreck site linked to a Spanish treasure fleet that sank off Florida in a 1715 hurricane. Photo courtesy Mike Perna ...

Four precious bronze sculptures worth tens of thousands of pounds stolen from the garden of the former Tory Party deputy chairman Lord Archer has revealed his 17th-century vicarage was burgled by ...

Witch hunting has claimed many lives in history and unfortunately persists today in some areas. One of the well-known ...

Well it’s my last day writing these Strands guides for the next couple of weeks, so I must bid you all adieu for the nonce. It’s been a fun week of puzzle-solving, though a lot of these have ...

Adrian Wooldridge is the global business columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. A former writer at the Economist, he is author of “The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World ...