Battle of Omdurman
A new military technology was used by Britain in the massacre of the army of Sudanese Dervishes, near Omdurman on 2 September 1898.
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Confederates on the Clyde
The American Civil War provided commercial opportunities for the sailors and industrialists of Glasgow, not all of them in line with official government policy. Alistair Goldsmith reviews the ways in which the authorities kept an eye on what was going on.
Death of Clara Collet
August 3rd 1948
The Head that Wears the Crown
John Adler explores the changing interpretations of Shakespeare’s history plays on stage - from Garrick to the new Globe.
Traders and Soldiers in Russian America
Before 1867, Alaska was a Russian fur-trading colony, its values and laws derived from Moscow and, in part, from the European Enlightenment. Ernest Sipes looks at the relations between the colonists and the native peoples.
On Home Ground: Traquair House
Richard Cavendish visits Traquair House, in Peeblesshire
Death of Lord Burghley
One of Elizabeth I's court favourites died on August 4th, 1598, aged 77.
Death of Emily Bronte
The author of Wuthering Heights died on 19 December, 1848, aged 30.