This is the first in a series to mark the 250 years of American independence. Today we live in a world of the 24-hour news cycle, one filled with misinformation, fact checking and the cries of ...
The Pound was the dominant international currency up until the 1940s but changes to the financial system and new trading ...
The Gazette is Britain’s oldest surviving newspaper, and the official journal of government. Established in 1665, with courtiers, government ministers and diplomats as its early journalists, it became ...
More than 30 countries grant unrestricted birthright citizenship based on the ‘jus soli’ principle – and nearly all of them ...
Saikat Majumdar’s new book explores the rise of amateurs as a response to colonial rule, and its current form, embodied by ...
At the end of December and the beginning of January Jews around the world celebrated the Festival of Lights, known as ...
In North America, the ‘right of soil’ was introduced by the British via their colonies, according to “The Evolution of Citizenship” study by Graziella Bertocchi and Chiara Strozzi.
Oxfam report says wealth extracted from India between 1765 and 1900 would be a sum large enough to ‘carpet the surface area of London in £50 notes almost four times over’ ...
On Jan. 29, 1820, 10 years after mental illness forced him to retire from public life, Britain's King George III, who lost the American colonies, died at the age of 82.
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