Virji Vora was a significant credit provider and client for both the Dutch East India Company and the British East India ...

Chimaji Appaji remains one of the foremost military generals of the Maratha Empire who inflicted a crushing defeat on the ...

A small casket, said to be a Barniz de Paso work, a largely forgotten form of varnishing, was found at the writer's house in ...

A chilling letter from Isaac Newton has revealed a prediction for the end of the world and you'd best brace yourself because ...

An exhibition that focuses on the historical stories of people who left a county to emigrate abroad has opened. Departures will be showcased at the Suffolk Archives building in Ipswich and follows a ...

Spokeo analyzed state government information and other historical sources to compile this list of stories behind every ...

An overview of how Bermuda’s early colonial government drew up the legislative basis for enslavement on the island has been ...

Before 1947 there was no India. Instead, the British Empire controlled the land mass now mostly known as India, some of it ...

Named after British horticulturists John Evelyn and the prevelence of crabtrees in England, this bath and body-care empire was founded in 1973 by Cyrus Harvey—no relation whatsoever—a New Englander ...

After centuries of rumour about what they do, some masonic lodges are turning to social media to de-mystify what goes on behind the closed doors of the the Freemasons' grand bases.

British interior decorator Rose Uniacke is making the leap to hospitality—and a wider American audience—by conjuring a ...

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