Surnames can reveal much about your family history, but they can also be a minefield of misinformation. By Paul Blake. Twenty members of the public describe what spurred them on to discover more ...

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Explore the history of the BBC since its foundation in 1922 to the present day Explore more than 100 years of the BBC’s history – click on our interactive timeline or investigate a topical ...

Eight years after the Iraqi city was left in ruins, Mosul’s rich multicultural heritage is slowly but surely beginning to flower again Eli Wizevich When the Renaissance artist painted his famous ...

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated ...