Great Britain was not alone in this line of thinking ... Trade became triangulated during the mid-1600s between the British Empire, its colonies, and foreign markets. This fostered the development ...

It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes." - Lao Tzu The rallying cry of the American Revolution, “No ...

Britain has been forged and reforged over the last thousand years. It was conquered and then eventually built a great Empire. Motives for migration to and from Britain - economics and commerce A ...

The Taliban may allow Washington to take control of Bagram air base. In return, the US may help end the Taliban’s diplomatic ...

Britain has lost an empire and lightened a pound ... large measure of that special quality that was once the hallmark of great cities: civility in the broadest sense. It takes away less of ...

A study led by the University of Cambridge has revealed that a series of extreme droughts between the years 364 and 366 AD ...

It would take a heart of stone not to laugh. Lease-holders in a group of chalets on the Dorset coast are up in arms because ...

and historians are inclined to wonder whether the Empire would have been possible without them. “My nurse was my confidante,” wrote Sir Winston Churchill; though he loved his mother “dearly, ...