Hyaenas in Yorkshire: William Buckland and the Cave at Kirkdale
A geological discovery in the 1820s, writes A.D. Orange, altered the views of scholars upon the Mosaic story of the Creation and the Flood.
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The Cruiser Aurora and the Russian Revolution
After service in the Russo-Japanese War, writes Norman Saul, the Aurora helped to secure the Bolshevik triumph in Petrograd.
The British Acquisition of Fiji
Traders and missionaries from Europe settled on Fiji many years before its official annexation by the British Empire.
Luther and the English Reformation
Quinten A. Buechner describes how, after 1519, Luther’s books circulated in England, but never entirely convinced King Henry VIII of the reformer’s sincerity.
Henry III of England
During the long reign of Henry III, writes J.J.N. McGurk, England was a turbulent country with an ambitious, bold and able baronage.