Smithsonian Magazine

These Buildings and Bridges Are the Most ‘Endangered’ in England and Wales—and They Tell Us a Lot About Life in the Victorian Era

Structures remaining from the height of the British Empire reveal changing economic, medical and education trends from the ...

A small number of Scottish families own lost fragments of the Stone of Destiny—how?

Pieces of the prized British relic were chipped off during an 1950 heist. Now people are coming forward with those ...