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

Since humans discovered the power and capability that comes with numbers, we have lived in societies that enable us to … ...

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

Chicago has always provided a place for the disenfranchised, whether from the Mexican Revolution in the early 20th century, or today for those fleeing violence, famine, environmental disasters or ...

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

A third of adults (33 per cent) believe that the UK's colonial period in the 19th and 20th centuries is something to be ...

Diageo was born from the marriage of Grand Metropolitan and Guinness, two British companies that had become globally significant in their own ways. Guinness, already a multi-billion dollar brewer ...

26th January is the official national day of Australia and marks the arrival of the First Fleet of British ships and the raising of the ... rape and murder were made a transportable offence in 1830 ...

British cinema is known for its quality and captivating actors ... Now, a complete novice at the business of running an empire, he has to take care of the many political turmoils in the country while ...

And, it was, arguably, his tryst with the British Raj that catalysed his transformation from ... exposing him to what he called “the dirty work of Empire at close quarters”: the wretched prisoners in ...

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 ...