Sail Newport’s Challenger Lecture Series is set to feature Keith Stokes on February 27 at 6 p.m. Stokes will present “African ...

Cyprus on Tuesday marked exactly 76 years since the closure of the last of the detention camps set up by the British colonial authorities in Cyprus to house Jewish people bound for Palestine.The ...

Divers recently discovered the wreck of a German submarine and the Royal Navy Q-ship that sank it in February 1917 ...

The British High Commission in Accra, the Ghanaian capital, is nestled among old trees in the city rsquo;s prime colonial ...

Historian Scot McFarlane joins the program to discuss the role of the canoe in warfare. He discusses the advantages the canoe provided in colonial America as well as the continued uses of canoes in ...

For all that however, the slave trade had to be brought to an end because it was standing in the way of the development of something even more profitable, if not any less abhorrent than the slave ...

Jefferson’s sentiments reflected the prevailing mood of a sizable majority of the country at the dawn of the 19th century: A ...

For a strong dose of Canadian history and some of the best seafood you'll ever taste, head to this unique town that offers a ...

Shutterstock Florida Has Rich Spanish Roots Spain first claimed Florida in 1513 when Juan Ponce de León arrived, and they ...

His company Cheung Kong -- named after China's Yangtze River -- thrived in Hong Kong's property market during the British colonial era and began expanding overseas in the 1980s. In 2015 ...

Work on the complete restoration of the British-era anaicut, a masonry check dam built in 1858, began on Friday. The dam is built across the Palar River between Thirumalaicheri and Pudupadi ...

A ‘lost and long-forgotten’ British ship has been found and photographed, over 150 years after it sank off the coast of Turkey. The Kalioub went down after it was struck by another ship in its ...