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 ...

How did Britain's naval strength, coupled with the beginnings of the industrial revolution, lead to the establishment of a strong global empire ... helped redraw the map of the world.

In this series, podcast presenters Datshiane Navanayagam and Katie Charlwood guide you through the British Empire. Check out ... Katie: In 1585, Queen Elizabeth the First gave Walter Raleigh ...

There was only one qualification needed for the post of a Victorian colonial governor: he had to be a gentleman. But gentlemen had to be tough and ingenious. Laying down the law in Lagos in the 1860s, ...

The finest ever map of the cosmic microwave background - the faint evidence of the universe's early form - has yielded ...

The British Empire is a proxy for the West. The phrase “colonialism and slavery” is often used to sum it up, as if the two things were identical. And it is common to hear British colonialism ...

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 ...

IN the University of Gottingen there is apparently the only copy of a map of the British Isles published in 1603 by John Woutneel and engraved by William Kip. It is a large sheet cut into four and ...

On March 17, 1776, the Continental Army under Gen. George Washington forced British troops to evacuate Boston.

When the Timestream Entanglement swept over New York City, Dracula seized the opportunity with Doctor Doom's gift, stopping the moon and declaring an eternal night with the power of Chronovium!

The map Olmert had drawn up now has an almost mythical status. Various interpretations have appeared over the years, but he has never revealed it to the media. Until now. Ehud Olmert's map of his ...

The UK provides aid to dozens of countries across the world, with the map below showing how much ... are among the nations expected to receive the most in British aid. Some nations also receive ...