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Muscovy Company governor Thomas Smythe, engraving by Simon de Passe, c.1605. incamerastock/Alamy Stock Photo.

The English Plan to Colonise Russia

Shahid Hussain | Published in History Today Volume 73 Issue 11 November 2023

When England’s search for a Northwest Passage via sea failed, an audacious plan to forge a land route was hatched by the Muscovy Company.

‘A View of Sydney on Norfolk Island, 1792’. Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales. Public Domain.

Rum and Reform: The Party on Norfolk Island

J.M. Moore | Published in History Today Volume 75 Issue 1 January 2025

As convicts celebrated Queen Victoria’s birthday on remote Norfolk Island, debates raged over the purpose of punishment and the merits of Alexander Maconochi