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 ...

But in the history of art, British landscape painting is a fairly recent movement. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is hosting “Picturing Nature: The Stuart Collection of 18th- and 19th-Century ...

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London merchant, variously given as Bodicote, Boddicot and Boddicott, of Richard Bodicote and Son [the son was also named Richard], who appears in the mid-18th century in connection with trade with ...

President-elect Donald Trump is preparing to dust off a series of centuries-old laws and legal theories to drive his first-year agenda — particularly on the border and birthright citizenship ...

The 18th century canal, which was previously used to transport coal but is now a leisure waterway, caved in near Dunham Massey, in the first major breach of the waterway for 54 years. Macclesfield ...

IN 1775, the war with the American Colonies broke out, and much of the source of Glasgow’s wealth was closed off.

British Sugar's factories sliced more than a million tonnes of sugar beet in three weeks this Christmas - their most productive festive period for six years. The company, which produces sugar ...

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