One of the most renowned nineteenth-century British explorers of Africa, David Livingstone (1813–73) was a medical missionary who received the Royal Geographical Society gold medal in 1855. His fame ...

Dr David Livingstone first went to Africa as a missionary in 1840, aged 27. Fifteen years later he recalls the occasion when he and his team set out to explore one of Africa's biggest rivers ...

Victoria Falls is located on the Zambezi River, on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. They were named for Queen Victoria ...

Two lectures given by the medical missionary and explorer David Livingstone after his return to England from his travels in Africa (1841–1856) form the core of this book, which was originally ...

Many people in Africa wanted education; and missionaries taught people to read, in order that they might understand the word of God. The missionary traveler David Livingstone (1813-1873 ...

On Nov. 10, 2009, John Allen Muhammad, convicted as the sniper who killed 10 people in a 2002 shooting spree in the ...

Today in History for Nov. 10: ...

David Livingstone (19 March 1813–1 May 1873) was a Scottish Congregationalist pioneer medical missionary with the London Missionary Society and explorer in Central Africa. He was the first ...

American reporter Henry Morton Stanley (Aidan Quinn) is hired to find British missionary David Livingstone (Nigel Hawthorne) in a remote part of Africa. Markham: Edward Fox. Alice Pike ...

1730: Dramatist Oliver Goldsmith is born in Ireland. 1793: France ends the forced worship of God. 1871: Henry Morton Stanley encounters David Livingstone at Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika in Central ...

Sonia Livingstone DPhil (Oxon), OBE, FBA, FBPS, FAcSS, FRSA, is a professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Taking a comparative, ...