Seventeenth-century German craftsmen came seeking a land of opportunity, and found it in County Durham.

The editor of the country’s most famous newspaper had to use a little sleight-of-hand to bring journalism to the people.

A French sea-captain let his tongue wag over dinner, and New Zealand’s destiny took a different turn.

The Dutch explorer ran across two islands in the Pacific of which Europeans knew nothing, but his chief desire was to get past them.

Captain Cook’s friend and ship’s surgeon David Samwell gives us his impressions of the great explorer.

Alexander Graham Bell was heading for a dead end when a broken component showed him the way.