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

President Donald Trump is looking at utilizing an 18th century law in his controversial crackdown measures on immigration.

To aid in navigation:” the political economy of cotton in the Portuguese Empire. In 1790, British envoy Robert Walpole asked ...

However, there is one neighboring country of India that has never been ruled by any foreign power. Yes, Nepal is the only ...

As generations of schoolchildren were taught, Elizabeth I of England famously said 'I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of ...

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

SCOTLAND’S role in the British empire is being misunderstood by both sides of the constitutional debate, experts have told The Sunday National ...

But in the history of art, British landscape painting is a fairly recent movement. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is hosting “Picturing Nature: The Stuart Collection of 18th- and 19th-Century ...

THE discussion of Scotland’s role in the British empire, as explored in your recent article (A Partner or a Subject?, Feb 2) acknowledges ...

(IN BRIEF) Professor Daisy Hay, a biographer and expert in 18th and 19th-century British literature, has been elected to the Council of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL). Hay, a Fellow of the RSL ...

Its value as the key that unlocked the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs is world-famous—but the turbulent history surrounding ...