In “Taking Manhattan,” Russell Shorto pays close attention to the darker aspects of colonial life on the island at the center ...

We begin with the immediate concerns of the Huseypur Raja and the circumstances that shaped the nature of his opposition to ...

Except for the Kofi-led revolutionary interregnum of 1763–1764, Guyana remained largely under Dutch and British rule, with a brief period of French control in 1782. The Dutch West India Company ...

Now, a great friend of the British, Jaswant Singh donated handsomely to Mayo College for boys in Ajmer, which was founded by ...

A fire at an electrical substation has caused a "significant power outage" and the closure is expected to last until midnight ...

Hello and welcome to another edition of The Weekly Vine. This week, yours truly is in the city of his birth—the one that ...

My experience of seeing pieces of Dhaka muslin in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London was a conflicted one. A part of me ...

The video explains how finance formed the foundation of New York from an early history, starting in 1626 with the Dutch West India Company ... In 1674 the British took control of the area.

The town still has some fine examples of Dutch colonial architecture – including Fort Oranje, which was founded by the Dutch West India Company in 1639 – alongside ... and have long comprised the core ...

Outlets selling bullion bars and coins are seeing a surge in demand as stocks crater amid economic uncertainty.

British Airways is utilizing all of its A350s on long-haul intercontinental flights beyond Europe. While BA A350s don't fly to Australia, Qantas does offer non-stop flights from London to the West ...

Indian authorities have banned two highly-addictive opioids in response to a BBC investigation which found they were fuelling a public health crisis in parts of West Africa. In a letter seen by the ...