On this day, 9 January 1799, Britain introduced its first 'temporary' income tax. Workers have been vexed ever since, writes ...

What was the British connection to an embroidered "Mughal textile" crafted in India in the early 18th century? The early 18th-century embroidered silk and linen textile a guest named Kitty brought to ...

The exterior of Sir John Soane’s Museum (all images courtesy the Trustees of Sir John Soane’s Museum unless otherwise noted, via Flickr) The stately facade of Sir John Soane’s Museum sits on the ...

Throughout the 18th century, Britain’s army fought across Europe, North America, and Asia, earning a reputation for ...

Author and historian Hampton Sides was the first Colorado College Griffiths Journalist in Residence in 2014 and co-founded what would eventually become the CC Journalism Institute in Colorado Springs.

Hair jewelry, as its name suggests, is jewelry carefully crafted and created with real human hair, typically made to memorialize someone recently deceased. While the popularity of hair jewelry ...

Gregory Collins is a postdoctoral associate and lecturer in the Program on Ethics, Politics, and Economics and the department of political science at Yale University. This article is adapted from his ...

Heartland’s Tim Benson is joined by Penelope J. Corfield, professor emeritus of history at Royal Holloway, London University and president of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, ...

Archaeologists have uncovered new research that provides definitive evidence that the remains of an 18th-century British warship are resting in the waters of South Florida. Although the discovery of ...