A secret map of Ireland's coastline played a crucial role in taking down a powerful alliance of pirates that had based itself in the southwest of Ireland in the 17th century.

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

Supertrawlers spent 7,380 hours fishing in UK Marine Protected Areas each year since Brexit An investigation by Greenpeace UK reveals today that giant supertrawlers relentlessly continue to catch fish ...

The former British colony is celebrating its diamond jubilee this year, and there’s every reason to plan a visit: hike ...

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 ...

The 2020 protests by the Black Lives Matter movement and controversy over some public statues drew attention to aspects of Britain's imperial past - and its legacy. BBC News presenter Clive Myrie ...

A map published by Earth System Science Data shows the dramatic decrease in forest-covered land in the United States since the 17th century. Before European settlement in the early 1600s ...

The Act of Settlement of 1701 was designed to secure the Protestant succession to the throne, and to strengthen the guarantees for ensuring a parliamentary system of government. The Act also ...

At UB, we take an approach to the study of 20th-century British literature that is fully attentive to the changes to the field brought about by related fields such as postcolonial studies and cultural ...

Thomas W Hodgkinson: There Was No Sorcerer - Box Office Poison: Hollywood’s Story in a Century of Flops by Tim Robey Thomas W Hodgkinson - There Was No Sorcerer Thomas W Hodgkinson: There Was No ...

Thomas W Hodgkinson: There Was No Sorcerer - Box Office Poison: Hollywood’s Story in a Century of Flops by Tim Robey Thomas W Hodgkinson - There Was No Sorcerer Thomas W Hodgkinson: There Was No ...

Nothing is set in stone, and ultimately this would be for new rail operators to decide, but Getlink has previously mentioned Cologne, Frankfurt, Geneva, Zurich, Marseille, Bordeaux and Lyon as ...