It is, however, actually a sampler from Barbados – the earliest known Barbadian sampler in any collection. The RSN sampler is ...

Winston Churchill, a man of great passions, including fine dining and spirits, had a special fondness for gin and tonic.

A book about 18th-century printmaking — and that of the early 19th century, something not quite captured in the title — might not strike you as timely. But as Chadwick points out, the British ...

The sun will quite literally set on the British Empire for the first time in 200 ... were slaves brought over by the French ...

In the 18th century, Britain had a well-established empire of colonies in the Americas. By 1740, the British government had allowed thirteeen colonies to develop in British America. The British ...

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents "Picturing Nature," featuring 70 British landscape watercolors and drawings from ...

Non-Western intellectuals and strategists have often wrongly equated domestic dysfunction and division in US democracy with ...

This wealth came partly from selling goods to Portuguese, British and other foreign ... economic difficulties saw the Mughal Empire decline in the 18th century. The capital Delhi was raided ...