The advent and popularity of television that advertised postwar toys created an incredible market for the baby boom generation. Here's a look at some of the more popular trends, toys ...

It’s been too many years since networks set aside several hours on Saturday morning for animated programming, but you can still do it yourself.

Metal lunch boxes, which became popular with schoolchildren in the 1950s when companies started featuring characters from TV ...

Gas streetlights like those pictures lit Bingley’s streets until electric lighting gradually replaced them by the late 1960s.

As the line between children's toys and adult toys becomes increasingly blurred, Lego has come right out and said it: The newly unveiled Lego Icons Shelby Cobra 427 S/C model car set has adult ...

In Homework, renowned writer Geoff Dyer meditates on the whole, small world of childhood – and how class influences who we ...

BINGLEY Arts Centre is hosting a free exhibition of historic photographs - The Bingley Life - that provides a nostalgic look back at the town in ...

Clint Eastwood claims that he "failed in" his 1971 movie 'The Beguiled', which was later remade in 2017 by Sofia Coppola.

Archaeologists excavating the ancient Greek city of Aigai in western Turkey have uncovered a remarkable temple dedicated to Demeter, goddess of agriculture and fertility, containing nearly 1,000 ...

Even though betting on races was illegal in New York at the time, fans turned out in droves to watch the little dark brown ...

On Sept. 1, 2004, a group of Chechen separatists took more than 1,000 people hostage at a school in Beslan, Russia, ultimately killing nearly 340 people, including children.

Most children today spend their free time playing games on one of their many “smart” devices. Fascinated by glowing screens and sensory-overloaded graphics, they spend hours absorbed by these highly ...