Britain

To encourage Britain’s Indian allies on the frontier between New England and French Canada, writes John G. Garratt, four Indian chieftains were invited to London during the reign of Queen Anne.

John M. Coleman draws a distinction betweent the Thirteen Colonies and the rest of North America.

Sailing the North-west Passage around the coasts of the American continent was for long an explorer’s ambition. George Woodcock describes how Amundsen realized it in 1906; Sergeant Larsen, R.C.M.P. in 1942-44.

Chinese labour in South African mines presented a problem to Liberal consciences, writes John Lehmann.

D.H. Burton writes that Roosevelt was one of the chief architects of an Anglo-American understanding that survived many diplomatic crises.

In 1373, writes Jan Read, King Edward III signed an alliance with Portugal which has lasted ever since.

H.T. Dickinson & Kenneth Logue describe the events of a Scottish protest against the Act of Union with England.

Alaric Jacob introduces the soldiers and administrators who prepared the way for nineteenth-century Empire.

At Toulon, writes Stephen Usherwood, the Royal Navy first became deeply involved in the affairs of the French Revolution.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, writes D. Pepys Whiteley, an easy-going Royal Duke was deeply embarrassed by the scandalous revelations of a discarded mistress, and by the publication of his private letters.