Following the 1857 revolution, which was dubbed by the British as a ‘sepoy mutiny’, the British Crown ended the British East ...

In honor of America's recent 249th birthday, let's take a moment to celebrate some of the most incredible things about her.

The remnants of Britain’s once mighty empire still give the mother country more than a few headaches. Britain, which once ...

Across the vast and diverse continent of Africa, those cultural roots were consistently and deliberately erased by colonial powers over a period of hundreds of years, yet the folk traditions of ...

Responsible for daring assignments like Operation Postmaster, the Special Operations Executive (SOE) was given a mission to ...

Discover the 5 most powerful navies in history. From ancient fleets to modern superpowers - naval dominance that shaped world ...

Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the ...

As the new adaptation of Jim Crace’s novel Harvest opens in cinemas, we gather in a bounteous crop of previous films that have captured life on the land and the rolling beauty of the British ...

Gaston Nievas & Thomas Piketty pieced together database on global trade flows from 1800 to 1914 and 1970 to 2025, and found ...

Atlantic City in New Jersey was once a byword for glamour - but its casino-driven regeneration has only brought more crime ...

The economic war against the world being waged by the US is reproducing, at a higher level, the conditions of the disastrous ...

Join us as we count down the ten greatest ska albums ever recorded, spanning from the early origins of the Jamaican rhythm to its 1970s Coventry counterpart.