From the mid-19th century onward, Irish and Indian nationalists forged strong personal and associational connections, ...

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

But this week, she received a title that even the most extravagant accessory couldn’t outshine. On Tuesday, February 18, ...

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 ...

From Habsburg Spain to Trump’s America, there’s no escaping the consequences of spending more on interest payments than on ...

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

Are Donald Trump’s threats against Panama and Greenland serious or just grandiose bluster? As an historian, I take their ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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