19th Century British Newspapers is a joint effort between the British Library and Gale to make available searchable, full-text digitized versions of key 19th Century British newspapers. The aim was to ...

Best known for his fiction writing, Dickens wrote a total of 15 novels between 1836 and 1870. His first was The Posthumous ...

Longtime adventure author and editor Anthony Brandt has just released his latest work, The Man Who Ate His Boots. The intensely researched book examines the search for the Northwest Passage, the holy ...

Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British and Irish Studies at UB brings together faculty whose interests and scholarship focus on the literary, cultural, and political histories of modern Britain ...

Scott Simon talks with Candice Millard about 19th century British exploration and her new book, "River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile." The quest ...

During the French Revolutionary Wars in the late 18th century, the British military was deployed to take over French possessions in the West Indies, and another West Indies campaign from 1804-1810 ...

Police returns for the city of Sheffield, 1844-1862, underpin the case that the arrest is a better base for analysis than the 'crime'. The number of convictions for indictable offences is less than 5% ...

A team of Canadian divers searching Lake Ontario for a different sunken vessel made a surprising discovery — a shipwreck ...