Mr Mearns has located 29 major wrecks in a career spanning 35 years, including the 16th century ship The Esmeralda from Vasco da Gama’s fleet, and Ernest Shackleton’s Quest ship, which went down off ...

Prempeh I (born 18th December 1870 – died 12th May 1931) was the thirteenth king ruler of the Ashanti Empire and the Oyoko ...

So the US, fresh from throwing off the yoke of the British empire, wasted little time in expanding its borders ... Apex and ending: Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee in 1897. Argent Archer / London ...

Instead of compelling Canada to become an American state, the 1890 McKinley Tariff drove Canada into British hands.

The British Museum should return the ancient treasures to Greece for the sake of art, not nationalism.

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

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 ...

Born on January 23, 1897, Subhas Chandra Bose was the son ... years of a boy who would grow to challenge the might of the British empire. In January 1909, Subhas Chandra Bose joined the Ravenshaw ...

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 ...

Villains are valued in many forms of entertainment, from films to the WWE. The Dodgers are the latest Evil Empire in baseball, drawing fresh attention to the sport. They’re acting this winter as ...

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 the aftermath of World War II, Hungarian-Jewish architect László Tóth (Adrien Brody) travels to the US and pursues the American Dream under the patronage of Harrison Lee Van Buren Sr (Guy ...