The English author, best known for The Jungle Book, had a lifelong fascination with India, which is now being traced on a five-star food map ...

Mamdanis belong to the Khoja community, who were categorized by the British in the early 19th century as “Hindoo Mussalman” ...

Paul Thomas Chamberlin’s book, Scorched Earth, recasts the conflict as a brutal struggle for survival among declining and ascendant imperial powers.

Gambia, one of the smallest countries in Africa, has a geographical shape that immediately catches the eye. Its territory is ...

This is especially pertinent to the dollar as the global currency and the legal and military infrastructure that ensures ...

That comforting cup of ‘cha’ you hold in your hand hides a bitter history of colonial theft, exploitation and ongoing injustice in South Asia’s tea plantations ...

As the first building to be built from an iron frame, the Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings in England is a forerunner of all iron- and steel-framed towers. Now, its custodians want people to know that.

Jeffrey Sachs comments on how closely 21st-century U.S. policy towards the Russian Federation mirrors how the 19th-century British Empire approached the Russian Empire. "We make up stories about ...

A rare 19th-century condom decorated with an erotic etching featuring a nun and three clergymen is going on display at a museum in the Netherlands.

The Rijksmuseum is presenting a rare 19th-century condom featuring a raunchy print in its new show "Safe Sex?" ...

Archaeologists found an 800-ton Dutch merchant vessel lost in 1857 off the coast of South Australia, offering a rare look into the region’s maritime trade history.

How a 19th-century British Jew became a Zulu chieftain and slaveholding warlord In new book ‘The Jew Who Would Be King,’ historian Adam Rovner tells the story of Nathaniel Isaacs, who survived ...