Sunken 18th-century ship discovered by chance in seabed off Croatia - Ivan Bukelic was working on a water pipeline in ...

Marine expert Edmond O’Byrne's team believes they have discovered the likely remains of the Recovery, an 18th-century that ...

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 ...

“Hand-struck, irregularly shaped coins—known as cobs in English and macuquinas in Spanish—served as the primary currency in ...

The Spanish galleon sank in 1708 and was discovered in 2015, but its true identity remained unconfirmed—until now.

An 18th Century pub in Bradford has been demolished after concerns about the safety of the building were found midway through ...

Since at least 2013, a rumor has circulated online that illegal gambling dens in 18th-century England hired people to swallow dice in the event of a police raid. In short, there is no credible ...

The British School, 18th Century comprised a group of artists active in this region in the period. Works identified as being by this group appear regularly at auction. Since 1998 the record price for ...

Timely Lessons From 18th-Century British Printmaking The Radical Print reframes the work of five artists who used the form to satirize and lampoon, actively dismantling power systems in the process.

Jason and Amanda Howard, a British couple who had lived all over the world, found a permanent home among the limestone hills of Wiltshire in southwest England, in this farmhouse from the late 1700s.

Last year, a dumpster diver in Hudson, New York, stumbled upon an extraordinary find: An 18th-century pen-and-ink sketch by English portraitist George Romney was hidden amid the rubbish. “When I ...