Technology underpinned British Empire, from tentative start in 7th century to global dominance in 18th and 19th centuries and ...

One of the best known battles of the American Revolution may have been in Lexington, Mass. But a historic house about 100 ...

The British Empire was the largest empire in history. At its height in 1922, it covered around a quarter of Earth's land ...

As someone who grew up in the last days of the British Empire, I am often asked how it was that so few people controlled so ...

As someone who grew up in the last days of the British Empire, I am often asked how it was that so few people controlled so ...

As someone who grew up in the last days of the British Empire, I am often asked how it was that so few people controlled so much of the world ...

Egypt’s 18th dynasty rose to the start of the New Kingdom (c. 1550–1077 BCE) and was the zenith of Egyptian international ...

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 ...

Photo by Göran Bengtsson Göran Bengtsson, a hobby archaeologist, was studying an 18th-century map of southwestern Sweden when he noticed something unusual. A rectangle and the word ...