Journeys from Hudson’s Bay
George Woodcock describes how, during the century that followed the ‘Glorious Revolution’ in Britain, servants of the Hudson’s Bay Company explored the Canadian west and the Arctic regions.
Volume 19 Issue 8 August 1969
New Orleans Under French Rule
For some sixty years during the eighteenth century, writes Sarah Searight, Louisiana was a colony owing allegiance to the King of France.
Blyden of Liberia
J.D. Hargreaves introduces a prophet of nationalism in the coastal countries of West Africa.
The Case of the Slave-Ship Zong
Robert Weisbord describes the shocking events that took place on an 18th-century British slaver.
Lady Granville as a Letter-Writer
Prudence Hannay introduces Lady Granville, the younger daughter of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. She bridges the gulf between two very different social periods. Brought up among the most dashing personalities of ‘the Devonshire House set’, she died in the great age of mid-Victorian respectability.
The Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707
G.W.S. Barrow describes how, 260 years ago, the Scottish people made a difficult but necessary choice.
Garrick’s Shakespeare Jubilee, 1769
When David Garrick, the most distinguished actor of his day, organised a splendid festival in honour of our greatest dramatist, writes Carola Oman, everything favoured him except the weather.