While London boasts some of the most famous museums and art galleries in the world, the rest of the UK is blessed with so ...

where the British Empire, which in a sense was at the height of its power and its ambition, its demand on the world’s resources was at its peak in the second half of the 19th century. And the impact ...

In the latest in a series looking at Shakespeare’s references to birds, Steve Sutherland has the lark in his sights.

For My Mouth will Speak the Truth, wickedness is an abomination to my Lips rsquo; This a quote from the Holy Bible at ...

The 'breastaurant', which has locations in Nottingham and Liverpool, is in urgent talks with lenders and advisers to address $300million (£237 million) of debts, according to Bloomberg.

The sun never sets on the British empire.” Variations on the phrase have been used for more than 200 years to describe the ...

Despite her anarchistic origins, Westwood was fully accepted into the fold, being named a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2006. Her designs are a favorite of Taylor Swift and ...

A new map released this week gives us a clear view of the continent as if its massive sheet of ice has been removed.

The most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet has been assembled by a team of international ...

Bedmap3 is the most fine-grain map to date of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice. Scientists created it using more than ...

To the East India Company and the British ... A map from 1758 by Jacques-Nicholas Bellin reveals the inflection point in the history of South India. The map has just about every empire represented ...