The Oregon Trail was once the most widely distributed software in US schools. It gripped a generation and changed gaming forever, but debates rage on about the history it depicts.

As a new Netflix series thrusts Gabriel García Márquez's masterpiece back into the spotlight, these are the real-life places that inspired the writer's magical realism.

In 1947, Gorizia was abruptly split between Italy and Slovenia. In 2025, the two towns will reunite as the first transnational European Capital of Culture.

In December 1933, five-year-old Shirley Temple signed with a nearly-bankrupt Fox Studios. In History looks back at how she revived the studio's fortunes – and became a superstar.

The Oscar-tipped film Nickel Boys adapts Colson Whitehead's novel about two boys at an abusive "reform" school and shoots it from their point of view. The effect is profound.

Before there was TikTok's For You Page, there was a tool that ushered users down online rabbit holes of semi-randomised websites.

Once synonymous with the aristocracy, the thoroughly British winter favourite is "timeless and beyond trends".

Nearly 500 years after the collapse of the largest empire in the Americas, a single bridge remains from the Inca's extraordinary road system – and it's rewoven every year from grass.