Coffee and tea both landed in the British isles in the 1600s. In fact, java even got a head start of about a decade. And yet, a century later, tea was well on its way to becoming a daily habit for ...

British Newspapers, 1600-1950 is a comprehensive digital historic newspaper archive. It provides access to historic newspapers, newsbooks, ephemera and national & regional papers from British Isles.

What a visiting Brit thought of early 1600s India. In ‘Courting India,’ Nandini Das examines the 17th-century diary of Thomas Roe, a central figure in the history of British colonialism in India ...

A land apart. Physical isolation provides the key to Cornish history. A rocky peninsula, jutting out some 90 miles into the Atlantic Ocean, Cornwall stands at the extreme south-western corner of ...