The Fitzhugh name is a part of the city, a ghost on the map that has long outlasted the family who put it there.

This ambitious dream and crushing failure was part of the ill-fated Salisbury and Southampton Canal, a subterranean waterway ...

Four days after the president said he was dismissing the head of the National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian has yet to accept or challenge his authority.

Exhilarated, we make SeaCity Museum in Southampton’s cultural quarter our next port of call. The Titanic began its voyage here, and this interactive exhibition embodies both extravagance and ...

Photo Credit: Gastro Gays It may sound like an aquarium but SeaCity Museum (southamptonmuseumsandgallery.co.uk) is the home of Southampton’s Titanic story, housed in the city’s modernised ...

At the fascinating SeaCity Museum, as well as in the glorious Tudor House and Garden and on one of guide Nigel Philpott’s See Southampton tours, we learned of the countless Invaders – from the Romans ...

One of my favourites was the 1873 painting by James Tissot, The Captain’s Daughter. Leaving the gallery, we passed the Southampton Guildhall, a grand pillared edifice, it is part of the same building ...

Art galleries can be found throughout Southampton, but the largest is Southampton City Art Gallery, located close to SeaCity museum. Entry is free and the collections include famous 18th – and 19th ...

Southampton Town is again seeking bids to complete its African American history museum following what the town called “defective workmanship” by the original contractor for the long-awaited ...

Stand atop the city walls of Southampton today, and you may imagine the Pilgrims of 1620 boarding the Mayflower for their historic voyage to America.

Lifelong Southampton resident Brenda Simmons recalls the 1950s as a time when African-American women in the village lined up at the local salon, waiting for her aunt Evelyn Baxter to work her ...