COMMONWEALTH (British Commonwealth of Nations) ... Early 19th Century London. “A bathroom was unknown, and a tub a rarity supposed to be only necessary for an invalid. . . .

N athaniel Isaacs’s life defied convention. A white Jewish Englishman who came of age during the early 19th century, he spent much of his career on the outer reaches of the British Empire in Africa.

A previously unknown shipwreck lying in nearly 70 meters of water off the coast of Estonia's largest island, Saaremaa, may be of a British collier which sank in the mid-19th century. The site has been ...