During the late 18th century, a flurry of social, political and economic changes offered many a new vision of personal ...

Toussaint L’Ouverture emerged as the leader of the Haitian revolution in the late 1780s, playing a key role in leading the ...

The turn-based strategy game has two Ph.D. historians on the design team and a palpable appreciation of cultures across the ...

AN uneasy peace existed in the settlement at the headwaters of the Connecticut River known as Indian Stream. Both the United ...

To aid in navigation:” the political economy of cotton in the Portuguese Empire. In 1790, British envoy Robert Walpole asked ...

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Some of the royal artefacts were stolen by British colonisers during the 19th Century Anglo-Ashanti war. Butter sculptures of British royalty and a working coalmine were on display but what was it ...

In the course of these defiant efforts she effectively became a key British agent, aiding UK efforts to alter the course of the war in the Allies’ favour, and her home, the Andrássy Palace on ...

In 1945, the victorious Allied powers gathered in San Francisco to draft a charter for the United Nations, the foundation of a new global order that would make another world war impossible. The ...

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Without further ado, here are the best British movies on Prime Video! For more recommendations, check out our lists of the best British movies on Netflix, the best British detective shows on ...

What do you imagine when you think of a British accent? If you’re imagining the refined tones of Queen Elizabeth II, the charming patter of Hugh Grant in a rom-com or the whisperings in a ...