Two hundred years after the first passenger train rolled down the tracks, these iconic rail journeys still inspire awe and ...

As an Alfred Hitchcock fan, the United Nations headquarters building in New York is forever associated in my mind with the scene from the director’s 1950s thriller North by Northwest in which ...

The actor was at the height of his cinematic success when he embodied Colonel Nicholson, leading a contingent of British prisoners of war in The Bridge on the River Kwai. This portrayal, along with ...

The actor is collaborating with the British luxury cashmere brand N.Peal on an exclusive capsule for fall called “The Art of ...

These are the movie performances so bad that they manage to completely destroy film night, leaving you promising to hate the ...

Today in History for Sept. 27: In 1540, through the encyclical Regimini militantis ecclesiae, Roman Catholic Pope Paul III officially approved the Society of Jesus, a body of priests organized by ...

Today in History for Oct. 7: In 1663, Jean Baptiste Le Gardeur de Repentigny was chosen as the first mayor of Quebec. In 1737, iron was first smelted in Canada, at St-Maurice, Que. In 1758, the first ...

There is much to be said for the Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR), the grand entry into the British history books, whose 200th birthday is being celebrated today.

The historic train journey that set the foundations for much of the modern age is being celebrated across the U.K. on the ...

Michael Cox looks at how the passenger train has been fundamental to English football for almost two centuries ...

A beloved British period drama has found a new streaming home in the UK. Released in 1970, The Railway Children is now ...

With Google at our fingertips, we may think that we know it all. But studies have found that access to Google has actually ...