More than 400 German toys dating from the 19th Century have sold at auction for almost £200,000. The collection of toys made out of wood, papier-mâché or composition in the Sonneberg and ...

Some of the oldest landscape photographs of England have been acquired by Historic England, providing a glimpse into the country in the 19th century. More than 8,000 photos that depict English ...

Emerging in the early 19th century, Bat–tala woodcut illustrations ... encompassing panjika (almanacs), epics, as well as schoolbooks, primers, biographies, plays, poetry, novels, jatra texts ...

The androids’ hardware and software can generate comedy or tragedy. But either way, these 19th-century automatons on 21st-century stages reaffirm that the uncanny valley stretches centuries into ...

For the first time in more than 90 years, a previously unknown waltz by a renowned 19th-century composer has been uncovered. Earlier this year, Robinson McClellan, a curator at The Morgan Library ...

To this end, they increasingly argue that 19th-century America’s extraordinary economic success was fueled by high tariffs. In an essay for the Economist, former U.S. Trade Representative Robert ...

For several months in 1898, a pair of male lions turned the Tsavo region of Kenya into their own human hunting grounds, killing many construction workers who were building the Kenya-Uganda railway.

This media landscape helped bring about the Civil War. The point is not that 21st century media is like the 19th century’s, but that the past was hardly full of the upstanding, rational, nonpartisan ...

That’s the trick Donald Trump is trying to repeat this year. If we look beyond Grover Cleveland to politics in the second half of the 19th century, are there any insights from that era that might help ...

Photo from Tomasz Stachura, Marek Cacaj, Baltictech A 19th-century shipwreck filled with luxurious liquid cargo was recently discovered off the coast of Sweden. A team of Polish divers with the ...

A rare and impeccably restored 19th century-villa in the Czech Republic is available for sale outside Děčín, after its owner spent 15 years and £12 million (US$15.03 million) to revive the ...

The Cynophere, a dog-powered velocipede, was invented by the French mechanic Narcisse Huret and patented on December 14, 1875. Illustration: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group (Getty ...