Gibraltar has been under British control since at least 1713 when the Treaty of Utrecht, signed between France and the ...
Reading letters from one major statesman to another can reveal more than just the plain facts of a political change ...
What are the little things (and not so little) that have to be decided before you join one independent nation ...
In 1799, Earl Cowper invited Humphry Repton, the leading landscape gardener of his generation, to prepare plans to improve the ...
In 1782 at the age of 15 John Dickinson began his career in the paper making industry. At this time, ...
In the early eighteenth century the land of America was wild and dangerous. This was particularly true when the War ...
18th century talks with our European neighbours Britain is about to be launched into, and likely to remain in, long and ...
The events leading up to this horrific ‘witch swimming’ seem to have begun when sixty-nine year old Ruth Osborne, begging ...