What was the British connection to an embroidered "Mughal textile" crafted in India in the early 18th century?

Just what drove the expansion of the British Empire into one of the largest in history? Kenneth Morgan weighs up whether it was the desire for greater trade or the thirst for conquest. The long ...

An intelligence map drawn up after a British government reconnaissance trip into the Highlands to establish the threat of Jacobite unrest in the early 18th Century has been revealed in a new book.

East India Company British involvement in India during the 18th century can be divided into two phases, one ending and the other beginning at mid-century.

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.

Emma Rothschild. Princeton Univ., $35 (600p) ISBN 978-0-691-14895-3 This original and remarkable book will be tough going for some readers, but they should persevere. It's the story of the ...

In the view of Edmund Burke, the growth in colonial trade did not lead to the correspondent reduction in British commerce.

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.

Author Stephen Millar takes a walking tour of Glasgow to examine the city's links to the international slave trade ...

In 1700 most foreign commerce, by volume and value, was still conducted with Europe, but during the 18th century British overseas trade became 'Americanised'.

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 ...