According to Smithsonian, the author’s travel writing desk is being sold through RR Auction. The portable writing surface ...

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of George D. Pratt. The Smithsonian Institution came of age in the era of Manif ...

The ornate desk features a silver plaque with a personal inscription that references the English writer's family nickname, ...

Now a football historian believes the origins of the world's most popular sport could lie in Scotland. Ged O'Brien is convinced an outraged minister banned matches from being played in his parish in ...

It's 200 years since George Stephenson climbed into the cab of the aptly named Locomotion No. 1 and took 600 passengers on a ...

Golf’s oldest championship will be played in Royal ... The Republic of Ireland has never hosted a tournament that was first contested in 1860 but a campaign to change that in Portmarnock in ...

Football's coming home - or maybe it was here all along. For centuries, those south of the border have laid claim to England being the founding place of the beautiful game. Now a football ...

Even later, in the 1860s, the British surgeon Joseph Lister introduced the first sterile silk sutures, cleaned of contaminants using a solution of carbolic acid. Silk’s strength has made ... at the ...