Stalin and Mao: Parallel Rise?
Russel Tarr compares and contrasts the rise to power of two Communist leaders.
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Victorians by the Sea Shore
C.M. Yonge shows how, during the nineteenth century, the British public began to take a keen interest in the wonders of their native beaches.
Lenin in Power
Russell Tarr explains how the Bolsheviks established their grip on Russia after the 1917 Revolution, and at what cost.
Captain Kidd: Privateer, Pirate and Agent of Empire?
The trial of Captain William Kidd raised uncomfortable questions for the state about the pirate’s role in the consolidation of England’s early overseas empir
The British Acquisition of Fiji
Traders and missionaries from Europe settled on Fiji many years before its official annexation by the British Empire.