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

By 1700, global trade was deeply entrenched in colonial expansion, financial innovation, and the increasing demand for luxury and staple goods.

Of the more than 400 coins, 116 were gold. These gold coins included 72 Roman aurei dating from 19 B.C. to A.D. 47, as well as 44 gold alloy coins, called staters, that were minted in Britain. The ...

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 ...

While the coins were buried during Nero's reign, some of them were minted earlier. All but one of the coins in the hoard are silver denarii, a standard Roman coin, that were minte ...

A hoard of 1,368 coins, most of them silver, has been discovered in a pot by a metal detectorist in Worcestershire, a county in England.

“I can understand that it must be tough for the 1,700 families involved,” Mr. Legault told reporters at a news conference on Wednesday, focusing most of his remarks on the need for Quebecers ...

Jan 22 (Reuters) - E-commerce giant Amazon.com (AMZN.O), opens new tab is exiting its operations in the Canadian province of Quebec, leading to the loss of about 1,700 full-time jobs, the company ...

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 ...

It took staff 12 hours to place the hundreds of cards inside the care home conservatory A care home resident has received more than 1,700 cards after an appeal was launched to help her celebrate ...

A care home resident has received more than 1,700 cards after an appeal was launched to help her celebrate her 103rd birthday. Mabel White, who lives at Watford House Care Home in New Mills ...

You can get in touch with Jess by emailing [email protected]. A massive asteroid the size of the Empire State Building is zooming towards our planet this weekend. The asteroid, named 2024 ...