As more young adults joined the military or worked in wartime industries, England turned to children to fill the growing gap in agricultural labor.

Cassava can grow in hot climates with little rainfall. It may be the "root crop of the century."

How did people find out where their local boundaries were before there were reliable maps?

Thanks to botanical artists, 19th century paintings of perry pears are helping to bring England's forgotten bubbly back to our glasses.

An eighteenth-century precedent for today's community gardens in Sheffield, England.