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

(IN BRIEF) Professor Daisy Hay, a biographer and expert in 18th and 19th-century British literature, has been elected to the Council of the Royal Society of Literature (RSL). Hay, a Fellow of the RSL ...

The 18th Battalion was raised at Liverpool in New South Wales in March 1915 as part of the 5th Brigade. It left Australia in early May, trained in Egypt from mid-June until mid-August, and on 22 ...

We explain why the late, great David Lynch's Mulholland Drive topped BBC Culture's poll to find the greatest films of the 21st Century. Cinema in the early years of the 21st Century has been ...

It’s a trying time for sugar mills in the current sugar season. Globally, international raw sugar prices have fallen by 21 percent from their end-September levels. Healthier than expected output ...

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 ...

The liberal pundit was hosting a book party at the Century, the private arts-and-letters club she’d joined during the pandemic, for her friend and fellow Centurion the media critic Margaret ...

The burly Vidarbha batter has a thing for finishing among the top when it comes to the record books—he is only the second India batter to have scored a triple ton after Virender Sehwag and the ...

His father was a cloth merchant who died early ... In that quest, he arrived in Bombay in the early 1900s when British firms dominated most businesses. Indian entrepreneurs faced an actively ...

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In the 21st century, music became more universal, immediate, and accessible than ever before. On Jan. 1, 2000, the average cost of a CD was about $18, which meant if you wanted to legally own 250 ...