Backed by the Dutch Republic, the Dutch East India Company made its ownership available to the public to fund business and ...

UK stocks’, ‘US equities’, ‘Chinese markets’ and so on.

It is reported that Sir Isaac Newton, one of the greatest minds of the Enlightenment, lost £20,000 or the equivalent of $3 ...

Raman Mahadevan's ‘Fortune Seekers’ captures the history of the mercantile Nattukottai Chettiars from Tamil Nadu. In this ...

While gear and equipment improve industrial productivity and efficiency, real estate is a reliable investment with the potential for both appreciation and rental income. Despite their high initial ...

BFI’s collection of Victorian 68mm film – the “IMAX of their day” – afforded protected status as part of a collection of 300 titles that will be added to UNESCO’s register.

And it's the latter weather pattern where KLM CEO Marjan Rintel finds herself these days. Like many companies, KLM had been ...

Young Lion Resting, which went on show in Amsterdam this week, could approach a record price for a work on paper at auction ...

It is somewhat consoling that, before the affected trading partners could issue formal responses, several members of the U.S. Congress themselves voiced concerns, effectively opposing Trump’s decision ...

The full version extends more than 500 miles from Cape Town in the west to Port Elizabeth (renamed Gqeberha in 2021) in the ...

Mostly in the New World; the Portuguese in Brazil, the Spaniards in the rest of what we now call Latin America and the British in ... belonging to the Dutch East Indies Company sailing to and ...