Though the rusted weapons will undergo official scrutiny and analysis, historians believe the cache could perhaps be related to the final battle of Shahjahanpur that took place on May 14 ...

Picture Courtesy – The British Library. One of the only known photographs of Bahadur Shah Zafar II, taken after his trial in 1858 For more than a century the last Mughal emperor was almost ...

“The doctrine, in our estimation, is, on the most essential point, atrocious, and the objects which are sought to be compassed are unworthy of the man, the office, thee country, and the age.” ...

Theodore Roosevelt, a titan of political progressivism, war hero, champion of American exceptionalism, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and 26th president of the United States, was born in New York ...

In 1903, Roosevelt was vice president of the United States. He assumed the presidency on September 14, when President McKinley died from gunshot wounds. Roosevelt understood that he would need the ...

Suffering in the hot weather? Spare a thought then for the population of London back in 1858, a year of sky-high temperatures and the Great Stink. That year, the London Standard reported ...

There is still work to do. Emmeline Pankhurst was born on 14 July 1858 in Moss Side, Manchester. Her family were very wealthy and her parents were both politically active. As she grew older ...

In August 1858, the Government of India Act was passed and direct British rule of India began. It is estimated that several thousand British were killed during the rebellion, while the estimates ...

Marcelline, Sanayi 2023. Working the salterns. Convict workers in the natural salt pans of Hambantota, in British colonial Sri Lanka. Labor History, Vol. 64, Issue. 6 ...