The design of the textile, as Pap went on to explain, "was inspired by Queen Anne embroideries that came into India in the early 18th century. And [Indian craftspeople] very quickly started ...

The Oxford History of the British Empire: The Eighteenth Century edited by PJ Marshall (OUP, 1998) Atlas of British Overseas Expansion edited by AN Porter (Routledge, 1994) Top ...

At the start of the 18th century, the East India Company's presence in India was one of trade outposts. But by the end of the century, the Company was militarily dominant over South India and ...

Ten plates used to print maps of the British Empire have been found in scrapyards. One of them, dated 1779, had been bought by a farmer in Norfolk to use as a mudguard for his tractor.

Edmund Burke (1729-1797), a British statesman and parliamentary orator, is seen here in a steel engraving by Evert A. Duyckinck, published in 1873.

The Inner Life of Empires: An Eighteenth-Century History Emma Rothschild. Princeton Univ., $35 (600p) ISBN 978-0-691-14895-3 ...

A new exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art aims to shed light on the complex relationship between 18th-century British metropolitan culture and the transatlantic slave trade. “Figure s of ...

Exploring Glasgow's links to the 18th century slave trade. By The Newsroom. Published 26th Dec 2018, 16:19 BST. ... When slavery was finally abolished in the British Empire in 1833, ...

His books include Bristol and the Atlantic Trade in the Eighteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 1993), The Birth of Industrial Britain: Economic Change, 1750-1850 (Pearson, 1999), Slavery ...

The Company's Indian trade in the first half of the 18th century seemed to be established on a stable and profitable basis. Those who directed its affairs in London could see no case for military ...