As generations of schoolchildren were taught, Elizabeth I of England famously said 'I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of ...

A museum dedicated to 18th Century British explorer Captain James Cook has reopened for the season, but the benefactor ...

In short, there is no credible evidence that 18th-century gambling dens employed dice swallowers to avoid police detection.

The diplomatic mission has had a presence in Edinburgh since the 18th century, but could be closed under State Department ...

The colonial victory against the British in the American Revolutionary War was far from a predetermined outcome. In addition ...

Its absolutist kings had ruled without France’s legislature – the Estates General – for more than a century and a half at the time of the American Revolution. British poet Robert Wolseley ...

Michael is in Ironbridge Gorge on the River Severn, a hotbed of 18th-century innovation.

Rotem Kalderon, a 66-year-old dual UK-Israeli national, had not previously been named in lists of British casualties. A teacher and lifelong resident of Kibbutz Be’eri, a settlement around three ...