J.O. Baylen

W.T. Stead's Controversial Visit to South Africa, 1904

'Frankly I am ashamed of being a Briton for the treatment we have meted out to the Boers as revealed by you and so justly condemned in your pages’ - John Burns to W. T. Stead.

Published November 6 2001

A Woman of Our Times

J.O. Baylen enthuses about a long-awaited biography of Olive Schreiner

Published August 31 1981

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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.