While they are impossible to measure, emotions such as liking or hatred, admiration or contempt—the quotidian stuff of human ...

While they are impossible to measure, emotions such as liking or hatred, admiration or contempt—the quotidian stuff of human relations—play a crucial part in making and unmaking alliances. Personal ...

Though the British Empire officially dissolved decades ago, its legacy is still woven into the fabric of many nations across the globe. From language and law to education systems and infrastructure, ...

Napoleon is relatively unusual in western history for aligning himself with the brutal Hannibal – not Hannibal’s Roman enemy, ...

In 1788, while heading out to the whaling ground, it was wrecked in bad weather. All 56 crew members survived.

The Alicia Silverstone comedy, which just turned 30, tops our list of adaptations based on the works of the English writer — ...

The Gilded Age was a period in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century during whereby several extremely wealthy families managed to construct behemoth houses based on European palaces.

This article examines the structure and consolidation of the British Empire, focusing on its historical context and administrative organization.

Years later, he wrote that his life was in as “much jeopardy as it ever had been before or since.” Washington was pursuing a ...

Sanghera, known for his works such as Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain and the memoir The Boy with the ...