Henry Dundas: Harry the Ninth
A manager of men and a master of contemporary politics, writes Esmond Wright, Dundas was Pitt's energetic colleague “during the most critical years in Britis
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Was Caligula insane?
Caligula was assassinated on January 24th, AD 41. He reputedly slept with his sisters and wanted to appoint his horse a consul.
John Wesley and America
John Wesley spent two years as a chaplain in Georgia in the 1730s; Stuart Andrews describes how forty years later he was much preoccupied with the
Plant Imperialism
Coffee from Ethiopia to Brazil, rubber from Brazil to Malaya...
The British Acquisition of Fiji
Traders and missionaries from Europe settled on Fiji many years before its official annexation by the British Empire.
Portugal: The First Global Empire
Poor and small, Portugal was at the edge of late medieval Europe. But its seafarers created the age of ‘globalisation’, which continues to this day.
A Young Nationalist in the Easter Rising
Anthony Fletcher uses the papers of his artistic great-aunt, who, as a young nationalist, wrote an eyewitness account of the Easter Rising, to explore her yo