A statue of James Cook, the captain of the first Western ship to reach the east coast of Australia, has been sprayed with red ...

Grant of £1m ‘just the beginning’ of plans to fund understanding of British shipping’s role in the 18th and 19th-century ...

My research explores texts written by British ship surgeons to get a deeper understanding of medical care at sea ... disease" of scurvy - though this advice would not be widely adopted by the Royal ...

Once considered a luxury item and given as a love token — or even used as a makeshift toothbrush — the handkerchief still ...

Outlander: Blood of My Blood' will tell the epic love story of Jamie Fraser's parents, Brian Fraser and Ellen MacKenzie.

Irish merchants were drawn to Tenerife by the growing economic opportunities offered by the island's sweet wines ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. April this year marked 30 years since the publication of Jonathan Coe’s most famous novel, What a Carve Up!, a dazzlingly clever ...

Archaeologists in the United Kingdom recently unearthed 1,000-year-old treasure in an unusual location: a construction site for a nuclear power plant. Oxford Cotswold Archaeology (OCA) announced ...

The Philippines has protested this month against the entry of Chinese vessels in its 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ), including the 165-m (541-ft) -long ship 5901, last spotted 77 ...

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