the brainchild of American inventor David Bushnell, who created the technology as a way for the colonists to combat the British’s powerful naval fleet. Live demonstrations give the audience a ...

John Adams was born in the American colonies, and grew up as a subject of Great Britain. Beginning in the 1760s, soon after he had finished his legal studies, a series of political events forced ...

Accents are pretty complicated things. Linguistically speaking, the modern British accent is known as Received Pronunciation, or RP. There are a ton of different accents in the UK, but the Oxford ...

In the 1760s and 1770s, Britain levied taxes and duties on her American colonies that were met with increasing disdain and violence. In Boston, when officials came to regulate documents under the ...

This led to the introduction of the Stamp Act of 1765, which was an attempt to make the American colonists pay taxes that could be used to pay for the armed forces in North America.