The story behind the "Old Glory" nickname for the American flag dates back to a 19th-century ship captain, who proudly ...

Between the early 18th and late 19th century,  the officials working with the East India Company commissioned local Indian ...

The Panopticon design involved a central watch tower, from which a single prison officer could observe the goings-on in the ...

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 ...

From the mid-19th century, as the British Crown gained political control of India, institutions such as the public works department (PWD) and military board standardised the bungalow format in ...

KATHMANDU, – A British climber beat his own record on Sunday for the most climbs of Mount Everest by a non-Sherpa, making his 19th ascent of the world’s highest mountain, a hiking official said.

Books line the shelves of the Michael Sadleir Collection of 19th-Century British Fiction in the Charles E. Young Research Library. (Andrew Diaz/Daily Bruin) ...

As the ambitions of the British in India went from commerce to colonisation in the 18th and 19th centuries, their eating habits evolved. While soldiers in camps and rural areas would continue to ...

Even though it was in the 1940s that the hill capital directly came to ‘host’ Burma, the link goes back to the 19th century, when the British Empire and Burma’s Konbaung dynasty collided ...

Sarah Storey picked up her 19th Paralympic gold medal on Friday, winning the women's C4-5 road race to extend her record as the most successful British Paralympian.

From the mid-19th century, as the British Crown gained political control of India, institutions such as the public works department (PWD) and military board standardised the bungalow format in ...