NEW YORK (Reuters) - A British Guiana One-Cent Magenta postage stamp from 1856, the only one of its kind to still exist, sold for a record $9.5 million at Sotheby's on Tuesday. The hefty price, which ...

An 1856 British colonial stamp once owned by the eccentric millionaire and convicted murderer John du Pont — and which broke records in four auctions — is going under the hammer again in the Big Apple ...

After 162 years of colonial rule, British Guiana will soon be going its own independent way. In London last week, following 17 days of talks with Guianese leaders, Colonial Secretary Anthony Greenwood ...

All week long, raging mobs of Negroes surged through British Guiana’s Georgetown capital, looting stores, mercilessly beating any East Indian in their path. What started as a peaceful strike by ...

Kiffer, Selby, Scott, Robert, and Lera, Thomas M. 2014. British Guiana: the world's most famous stamp. New York: Sotheby's.

A Cabinet subcommittee is now studying a report on possibilities of refugee settlement in British Guiana made by an Anglo-American experts commission under the sponsorship of President Roosevelt’s ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The Labour Party's ambivalent attitude to anticolonial nationalism is well known but its place in the conflicts between the party's ...

AT the meeting of the Royal Geographical Society on Monday evening, Mr. Everard im Thurn described the general characteristics of the new district in the north-west of British Guiana in the settlement ...