I applied to become a Blue Badge tourist guide in London, a move that combined my love of history, a desire to better ...

English writer Samuel Johnson remarked that “religion is the ... “Do not presume to lecture me on the hardships homosexuals must bear. No one knows them better than I. For while I am not ...

As some of you may be aware, part of my education in college was achieving a major in history — for all the good it’s done me over the years. A story I tell often is one day the colorful and clearly ...

Currently ranked as the leading researcher in paediatrics in Nigeria, who is also amongst the top 5 in Africa as well as amongst ...

Dr Johnson once lamented that ‘no man leaves his eloquence ... Henry James returned to America in 1904 with three objectives: to see his brother William, to deliver a series of lectures on Balzac, and ...

We know a great deal about Samuel Johnson, not only from Boswell (though he came into ... to see his brother William, to deliver a series of lectures on Balzac, and to gather material for a pair of ...

The Club, as Leo Damrosch explains in this group biography of its members, was a dining, drinking and debating society for some of the leading lights of the age, established by Samuel Johnson and ...

Speaking to News Corp, Samuel said that he had a 'very specific reason' for the career switch. 'I call it going backwards to go forwards,' he said. 'I look back to what I liked before – beer ...

Raising funds and awareness for cancer research with Love Your Sister remains his life’s purpose — as the charity hits a $20m milestone — but Samuel Johnson is also embracing his childhood ...

There are many basic but essential facts to be learned about Samuel Johnson. For example, he was born in 1709 and died in 1784. His life spanned the reign of four British Monarchs: Queen Anne ...