Exercise and diet are not the only things to radically change over the last half-century. In the 1950s, a new home cost £2,000 but an office worker's average wage was just £ 14 a week.

Take a step back in time with our collection of nostalgic snapshots from the 1950s, a decade that seems like a different ...

American society in the 1950s was geared toward the family. Marriage and children were part of the national agenda. And the Cold War was in part a culture war, with the American family at the ...

The 1950s was a pivotal time for country music. Some of the genre’s biggest artists got their start in the decade and are still loved by fans across the nation and beyond today. For instance ...

Feb 8 - Jersey Joe Walcott KOs Harold Johnson, three rounds, Philadelphia. In 1936, Walcott had KO's Phil Johnson, Harold's father, also in three rounds, same city. Sept 4 - Dave Sands, already ...

In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes how they compared the three top contenders, and why they chose the 1950s, as the most likely marker.

In the 1950s, images of the future were tightly interwoven with the social, political, and economic phenomena that defined the decade. From the space race that would grow out of the increasingly ...

After World War Two finished in 1945 life got better for children in Britain during the 1950s. The destruction of the war and evacuation had shown people how poor many children were. It was agreed ...

These dog-tag style metal plates were used in the 1930s through the 1950s by department stores that each issued their own store plates to their customers. In 1950, the Diners Club card became the ...

Vice President Harris defended her family following attacks in a new podcast interview that came out Sunday. In her response, Harris said “family comes in many forms, and I think that ...

BERLIN, Oct 22 (Reuters) - The war between Israel and Hamas has devastated the Palestinian economy and left nearly all of Gaza's population in poverty, with quality of life indicators such as ...