As generations of schoolchildren were taught, Elizabeth I of England famously said 'I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of ...

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Whitby has had a fishing fleet since at least the 14th century but became Britain’s third largest boat building centre in the 1800s - here is the history of ship and boat building in the Yorkshire ...

Rani Velu Nachiyar is an 18th-century warrior from the Sivagangai estate in present-day Tamil Nadu. She is remembered as a ...

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The blood-soaked history of Scotch-Irish settlers on the early American frontier—and its echoes in today’s politics.

From India’s original inhabitants, the Mauryans, to the British, who came as traders but stayed to reshape its history, this is a land that absorbed everyone, even those who tried to dominate it. From ...

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