These businessmen successfully navigated the grey zones of contraband, clandestine trade and smuggling from Youghal to Havana ...

Credit - Kent Nishimura–Bloomberg/ By the mid-18th century, Anglo-Americans generally believed in the virtues of a “rough” economic equality, that a republic needed to avoid concentrated wealth and ...

Imagine a London version of the Taj Mahal. Not a copy of the splendid 17th-century Mughal tomb built by Shah Jahan for Mumtaz ...

Expedition Unknown's Josh Gates is after sunken treasure in a sneak peek of this week's Expedition Unknown. Watch the clip ...

The Fitzhugh name is a part of the city, a ghost on the map that has long outlasted the family who put it there.

Stroud and its famous Five Valleys once thrived as a vital centre for creating woollen cloth, enrobing kings, soldiers and nobility all over ...

A sunken 18th-century boat has been discovered by chance near the majestic stone walls of Croatia’s medieval city of Dubrovnik.

DUBROVNIK, Croatia (AP) — A sunken 18th-century boat has been discovered by chance near the majestic stone walls of Croatia's medieval city of Dubrovnik.

Thomas Malthus was an 18th-century British economist whose arguments about population growth inspired misanthropes and population controllers for more than 200 years.

As Ryan’s father was too ill to write, his brother-in-law, a wine merchant from Carrick-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary, Walter Woulfe, elected to offer some advice on his future as a colonial merchant.

Canaletto's views appealed especially to wealthy 18th-century British visitors who came to Venice on the Grand Tour. Americans also visited Italy and collected prints to remind them of places seen.