The Great Exhibition opened
The world’s first international exhibition of industry was opened on the 1st May 1851 by Her Majesty Queen Victoria. It...
24/07/2013
MODERN HISTORY
The Prince and the Devil Dog
The strange story of Prince Rupert’s dog began in 1638, when Rupert of the Rhine – the youthful nephew of...
14/07/2013
Jacob Tonson and the Kit-Cat Club
In the snowy spring of 1733, Samuel Croxall, a classical translator, travelled to Herefordshire to visit his retired publisher, Jacob...
11/04/2013
Napoleon in caricature
The turn of the 19th century was a golden age of caricature across much of the northern Europe – from...
16/03/2013
Victorian Scotland
By the time Victoria became queen of Great Britain in 1837 the powers of the monarch were much more restricted...
24/02/2013
The Black History month
February is Black History month. Some say that this special month is no longer necessary because African American history should...
03/02/2013
Black gold: The triumph of oil
Yet within the single lifetime of some of its oldest inhabitants today, Europe has undergone an astonishing transformation, a transformation...
02/01/2013
Building of the American nation: Freedom is a habit
By contemporary standards the society that emerged from the revolution was radically democratic, in the sense of granting political franchise...
17/12/2012
The British Midshipmen: Apprenticeship at Sea
It would not have taken Midshipman Horatio Nelson long to earn that life board ship – at least below decks...
22/11/2012
Tasmania, 1803 – 1836
After the departure of Baudin from Sydney it was discovered that there was an inclination on the part of the...
21/11/2012