British arrival in India sparked a culinary fusion, creating Anglo-Indian cuisine from necessity. Indian spices met English ...

This week it will be 200 years since what has often been described as the birth of the modern railway - when the Stockton to Darlington public line in north-east England became the world's first to ...

When the British set foot in India, they brought more than flags and uniforms, they carried their homesick palates. In ...

It's now been decades since a mysterious underground lake hidden beneath one famous Liverpool street was first discovered.

The last national clock design for Britain’s railways was created as part of British Rail’s 1974 design manual. Since ...

Hindsight is the ability to look back and judge decisions or events in the light of how they turned out or suggest what might have been, had intervening variables been kinder ...

Two hundred years after the first passenger train rolled down the tracks, these iconic rail journeys still inspire awe and wonder. On 27 September 1825, reporters and onlookers from across England ...

There are ghost trains and haunted stations all over the UK - including a headless man, screaming woman and phantom dog. And ...

York’s National Railway Museum’s Grade II listed Station Hall reopens today – 26 September – after an £11m transformation. As part of the restoration works which began in 2023, Buttress Architects ...

Volunteers are fundraising to buy the York Railway Institute to save the sports centre from the risk of being redeveloped.

The Race Relations Act 1965 ducked key issues but stands as a seismic legislative moment, paving the way for the more ...