Volume 20 Issue 10 October 1970

The Search for Franklin

In 1845, writes George Woodcock, a veteran of the Arctic Seas perished with his crews in the Canadian North.

Slave into Soldier

Albert E. Cowdrey records the enlistment of runaway slaves by the North during the American Civil War.

Wycliffe and the Lollards

Peter Heidtmann introduces the charismatic leader of a reforming heretical sect at the end of the fourteenth century.

The Battle of Surbiton, 1648

One of the last battles of the English Civil Wars – the Battle of Surbiton – took place in the county of Surrey, a few miles south of London in 1648.