1619: A Dutch ship brings the first permanent African ... annually on British ships. 1700s: Almost half of the slaves coming to North America arrive in Charleston. Many stay in South Carolina ...

A country in Africa owns a bizarre strip of land that looks like a cartographer's hand slipped when they were drawing the map ...

Around 1750, the British mainland American colonies had a ... Each year 3,500 black captives arrived from Africa or the Caribbean. Nearly 1 in 5 Americans, or 300,000 people, were enslaved.

Check the map and you’ll find Eswatini towards the top right-hand corner of South ... South Africa. However, it has been independent since 1968, when it shrugged off the mantle of British ...

International borders have changed dramatically over the centuries. In some cases entire countries have been erased from the ...

Prime Minister Starmer hands over the Chagos Islands to its former colony, Mauritius. Detail of an illustration featuring the ...

Some, like the late American historian Ivan Van Sertima, entertain the idea that they reached South ... on the map, quite literally. In a Catalan Atlas map from 1375, a drawing of an African ...

It has put St Helena on the map." St Helena is part of the British Overseas Territory of ... on hold due to coronavirus restrictions in South Africa. Instead, St Helena is currently served by ...

British honeymooners stranded on mountainside for four days after devastating storm - ‘Entire towns were wiped off the map’ ...

Once upon a time, a charismatic demagogue threatened civil war, while elected liberals flailed around helplessly ...

Hints from the forecast suggest that the UK isn't quite done with the warm weather; hot weather maps are pinpointing the exact moment when a 248-mile-long African plume could sweep across Britain.

Denmark, France, Germany and the UK, which are all partner countries supporting South Africa's just energy transition (JET), ...