A 19th century fortress overlooking Portland harbour in Dorset is home to HMP The Verne (Chris Ison/PA) This meant some staff at the low-security jail in Dorset were “not aware what offence ...

A prison holding Gary Glitter and hundreds of other sex offenders is failing to challenge their criminal behaviour, a watchdog warned. Chief inspector of prisons Charlie Taylor said there were ...

Sir Keir Starmer has taken down a portrait of William Ewart Gladstone that was hanging in No 10, The Telegraph understands.

Since acquiring The New York Sun Efune, a British-born former editor of the New York-based, Jewish-focused newspaper ...

Naga academic Dolly Kikon, a professor of anthropology at the University of Santa Cruz, told The Telegraph that she ... home to Naga tribes, in the 19th century. Colonial powers began the ...

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The 362 sq ft hut is set back more than 50 metres from the clifftop at Dumpton Gap – near the public toilets – and is ...

It took 16 years to develop from the introduction of the telegraph to the Civil War. Undoubtedly, the fight over slavery caused that conflict, but the newspapers fed it, amplified it, exaggerated it.

British intellectuals enjoy bewailing the influx of Americanisms into the language of the mother country. The BBC once asked ...

The telegraph may seem old-timey today ... that the Northern pushback to expanding slavery came from the 19th century equivalent of “very online” young newspaper readers.