Millions of people trying to cut out alcohol for Dry January may not realise they are following in the footsteps of a 19th ...

We owe the invention of commercial travel to a woodturner turned temperance activist turned commercial tourism tycoon named Thomas Cook. Here is his story.

Two buildings in Cornwall, the Teetotal Hall in Penryn and the former Lamb Coffee Tavern in Redruth, and two buildings in Devon, the former Raleigh Hotel in Dartmouth and the Royal Albert Temperance ...

Explore the historical significance of the Derby Temperance Hall, a testament to the 19th-century social movement against ...

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People singing Auld Lang Syne during New Year at the Tron Kirk in Edinburgh in 1964 Tens of thousands of people from around the world will descend on Edinburgh this week to join a huge street party ...

A radical feminist campaign to respond to gender inequality and violence against women by swearing off sex, dating, marriage and babies is gaining traction with young women around the world. The 4B ...

The Harvard professor provides a ceaseless flow of startling details in this exhaustively researched, 1000-year account In the early 17th century, the Peruvian city of Potosí billed itself as the ...

The Mindfulness Movement is an inspirational look at the benefits of mindfulness. The Mindfulness Movement, featuring Deepak Chopra and Jewel, is an inspiring and informative profile of the growing ...

Before the California Gold Rush in the late 1840s, there were perhaps 50 native Chinese people in the United States. Just a few decades later, there were more than 100,000, and seemingly every city, ...

The Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution Collection items available for reproduction, but the ...