Lord North

That the United States declared its independence in July 1776 is well known; that the British state commissioned, but never published, a counter-declaration is not.

Parliament’s champion of the people or scandalous, self-serving politician? Georgian radical John Wilkes kept a foot in both camps.

Political reputations are forged by actions, but the long view of Britain’s prime ministers can be hard to predict.

Fifty years separate the Boston Tea Party and the Monroe Doctrine. How did a group of British colonies become a self-proclaimed protector of continents within half a century?

An acceptable minister in peace-time, Lord North’s misfortune was to hold office at the time of the American Revolution and War, as Eric Robson here shows.