In the Channel 5 show James May’s Great Explorer the former Top Gear presenter will be investigating into the history of the Yorkshire sailor Captain James Cook who was active in the 1700s.

Imagine that you are a merchant in 17th-century Mexico. With bated breath, you stand at the harbor of Acapulco, eagerly ...

CBS is scheduled to release the next, new episode 2 of NCIS: Sydney’s current season 2 tonight, February 14, 2025, and it ...

Bengali textile workers were not enslaved as ancillary to men or as commodities of pleasure alone. They were enslaved and ...

Ship surgeons had a weighty responsibility ... advice would not be widely adopted by the Royal Navy until the late 18th century. In his mid-17th century medical journal written aboard the merchant ...

To the unaware, the name Acaster Malbis could likely evoke a place of distinction, perhaps having been conferred by a ...

In the Napoleonic Wars, Britain had a secret weapon. It wasn’t a new sort of ship or a better gun or different training regime. Britain did have those things. Her men were more disciplined, more ...

An 18th century scene lit by candlelight of a ship's captain using a caliper called a divider to plot a course on a map. Old Map of Europe Circa Late 1700s Detail to the Ural Mountains and Asia Old ...

Is it possible to see into the future Many believe that a man named Michel de Nostradamus could His predictions of the future have mystified scholars for over four hundred years Nostradamus made over ...

Welcome to Mystic, Connecticut, a charming seaside town that’s more than just a pizza place made famous by Julia Roberts ...