Ulrich Herbert

Good Times, Bad Times

Michael J. Bennet shows how, maligned as self-seeking opportunists, the Stanley family can be seen to have adhered to principles of wise statesmanship which were to earn them accolades as 'good lords' and 'king-makers'.

Published February 1 1986

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Lords of the Northern Forest

The Hudson's Bay Company was one of the central forces moulding the development of the vast tracts of land that today are Canada - but as Barry Gough explains here, the circumstances of its launch in 1670 also reveal much about the commercial forces, personalities and rivalries of Restoration England.