These businessmen successfully navigated the grey zones of contraband, clandestine trade and smuggling from Youghal to Havana ...

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The Fitzhugh name is a part of the city, a ghost on the map that has long outlasted the family who put it there.

For more than 200 years, the São José Paquete d’Africa lay hidden off Cape Town’s shore. Its excavation in 2014 uncovered a ...

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S OME 120 years on, few remember the outrage provoked by the awarding of the Nobel peace prize to Theodore Roosevelt, the ...

The small village of Silchester in Hampshire has a history that belies its relatively modest size, having once been one of ...

Does industrial concentration shape the life and death of cities? We identify settlements from historical maps of England and Wales (1790–1820), isolate exogenous variation in their late 19th-century ...