Inland navigation on Gangetic rivers was a lengthy and risky business — until the arrival of William Tolly, an officer of the ...

As Virginia's first female newspaper publisher, Clementina Rind emphasized women's viewpoints and collaborated with prominent ...

1934 – In Amarillo, TX, the first Mother’s-In-Law Day was celebrated. 1943 – Germany called fifteen- and sixteen-year-olds ...

For over a century, beginning in the 1770s, the island was used as a quarantine ... for goods and people coming to and from Venice by ship. However, in 1793 there were several cases of the plague ...

Crispus Attucks is shot and killed by British soldiers becoming the first American to die in the struggle for American Independence from England. Attucks was an escaped slave who became a sailor and ...

The town became very popular towards the end of the 18th century thanks to a Royal visit that began the craze of sea-bathing.

To mark International Women’s Day on March 8, we celebrate the stories of three creative women from history in an extract ...

Rural and regional Australia is well known for its “big things”. There’s the Big Pineapple (Sunshine Coast, Queensland), the ...

Nantes, once France's largest slave-trading port, now honours its history with a powerful memorial to the transatlantic slave trade ...

The Delfin ("Dolphin") was a Greek submarine in service with the Hellenic Navy during the Balkan Wars and the First World War ...

ABINGTON 165 Colonel Hunt Drive. One-family ranch, built in 1950, 1,474 square feet, 6 rooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, on ...

One of the most significant pieces is a 1770 watercolour of the Marie-Séraphique, a ship from Nantes that transported enslaved people. The image, drawn and signed by those involved in the trade ...