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new construction archaeological review that unearthed evidence of an 18th-century British fort, known as a redoubt or rampart, believed to be one of seven built by the British in St. Augustine ...
Since at least 2013, a rumor has circulated online that illegal gambling dens in 18th-century England hired ... On May 22, 1889, a local English newspaper called Liverpool Daily Post published ...
The English had struggled in the previous century over the extent of the king’s power. After fighting two civil wars, executing one king, and, eventually, forcing the monarch to agree to rule ...
Archeologists in St. Augustine, Florida have discovered evidence of an 18th-century British fort, known as a redoubt. The discovery was made during a routine archeological review, which is ...
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 ...
The postcolonial and feminist lenses Chatterjee deploys in his discussion of the works of the selected women writers seem to suit his analysis of the works of these "enlightenment" period British ...
A book about 18th-century printmaking — and that of the early 19th century, something not quite captured in the title — might not strike you as timely. But as Chadwick points out, the British ...
But now, the professor of history at University of California, Berkeley is finding these common practices to be a point of tension: Her students can’t understand her handwritten feedback.
New research has revealed the fascinating life story of a once anonymous Black boy in a grand 18th-century English portrait by French painter Jean-Baptiste van Loo. Recently uncovered documents ...
In the deep waters between Morocco and Spain, wreck-divers discovered a pirate ship that may have sailed the seas during the 18th century ... HMS Sussex—an 80-gun English warship that was ...