For most of the year, Quarry Farm — the former summer home of famed author Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain — is reserved for Twain scholars. But in the spring and fall each year, the ...

The Mark Steel Lectures are a series of radio and television programmes. Written and delivered by Mark Steel, each scripted lecture presents arguments for the importance of a historical figure. The ...

BOSTON (AP) – The Boston museum where thieves stole $500 million worth of masterpieces a quarter century ago will honor the missing works by offering virtual tours. Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner ...

WILTON - The transformation of a "Missouri ruffian" into the "Hartford luminary" known today as Mark Twain is explored in detail in a lecture at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 17, at the Wilton Historical ...

Mark Steel follows the glorious life of Lord Byron from his birth just off Oxford Street in London to his death in Greece thirty-six years later. We see Byron on the beach, Byron and his pet bear and ...