What if the man responsible for catching criminals… was secretly the biggest criminal of them all? In 18th-century London, ...

Last Updated on July 14, 2025 by Matt Staff The 1800s were a turning point in the history of firearms. As empires expanded ...

The founding principles that make this country great and that we celebrate today are exactly what drew the author here from ...

The phrase “the empire on which the sun never sets” was first used in reference to the Spanish empire under the 16th century Hapsburg reign of King Charles I, also known as Charles V of the ...

No one would claim that the piratical empire of the 17th century or the mercantilist one of the 18th century were forces for much more than expropriation, expulsion and enslavement.

British schoolchildren have long been taught comforting fairy tales about the beneficence of the largest empire in history, but recent historical scholarship is painting a quite different picture.

She depicts it as “more like Singapore on steroids than a Norway on valium.” The adage about the sun never setting on the empire took root in the 19th century as the British empire gained new ...

By the 1700s, discontent had boiled over. Britain taxed the colonies for sugar, tea and alcohol. American anger rose with ...

"Sugar becomes widespread by the early 18th Century," Collingham said. "Now the [British] poor could afford sugar, or at least treacle, or molasses – the residue that remains when refining sugar." ...

18th and 19th Century British Studies focuses on literary, cultural and political histories of modern Britain and Ireland.