The depiction of an enslaved Black child known as “Jersey” by celebrated 18th-century portrait painter Joshua Reynolds has ...

Spanish archaeologists from the University of Cádiz uncover a 2,400-year-old ship graveyard in the Bay of Gibraltar, ...

For centuries, ships carrying merchants, soldiers and explorers passed through the narrow waters linking the Atlantic Ocean ...

Unmasking 'Jersey': Archival records identified the boy in Reynolds’ portrait as George Walker, an enslaved youth who served with Paul Henry Ourry. Life in the Navy: Walker sailed on three ships with ...

An oil painting by Joshua Reynolds features a named naval officer and a Black child whose life story was unknown until ...

The wreck of a German steamship sunk at the end of World War II found by divers, with the crates on board the submerged ...

Peter Bradley, a painter, art dealer and fixture of the 1960s and ’70s Manhattan art scene, brought a loftlike aesthetic to ...

A secret ironworks in Sterling Forest produced the Great Chain that protected the Hudson. It wasn’t fully uncovered until the ...

Exclusive: Until now nothing was known about ‘Jersey’, depicted with naval officer, but research raises hopes he may have won freedom ...

I am one of those people who get a real kick and pleasure from wood, which is just as well because I am an antique dealer, selling ...

On Monday this week I had the pleasure of visiting the village of Airth to talk about the fantastic history of the area. It ...

This, for most of my life, was all I knew of Gothenburg, the city on Sweden’s west coast that manufactured the only car I’ve ...