At the turn of the 1890s he began working on designs. A patent was granted on 31 August 1895. It would be years before he won ...
The Men of the French Directory, 1795-9 by Biancamaria Fontana sets the record straight on the French Revolution’s great ...
The Rise and Fall of American Europe by Glyn Morgan finds a continent powerless before a capricious United States. Is it too ...
The Revolutionary Life of George Forster and His Search for Humanity by Andrea Wulf brings the most enlightened of ...
The consequences of Carthusian defiance showed the brutality of the dissolution of the monasteries.
The column reached Red Square on 22 August, 84 days after departing, and laid flowers at the Kremlin wall. The riders ...
Sailors looking for work in the 19th century risked getting crimped – or shanghaied – and caught in a whirlpool of ...
It marked a turning point in the Cold War: the president of the United States had just signed a nuclear disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union. The US military’s top brass were furious, having ...
Zog I was probably the strangest monarch of the 20th century. The Times called him ‘the bizarre King Zog’ and his biographer, Jason Tomes, quotes descriptions of him ranging from ‘a despotic brigand’ ...
In 1750 England and her empire, including the American colonies, still adhered to the old Julian calendar, which was now eleven days ahead of the Gregorian calendar, introduced in 1582 by Pope Gregory ...
The history of British involvement in Malaya goes back to 1786, when the East India Company established a trading post on Penang Island. Sir Stamford Raffles founded a British settlement on the island ...
The founder of the Salvation Army was 83 when he died on August 20th, 1912. ‘The General,’ the Army announced, ‘has laid down his sword.’ His body lay in state for three days at the Congress Hall in ...
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