History Today

America was always newsworthy in the 18th century, but, writes Wallace Brown, the emphasis was on exotic items, heroic or villainous.

After years of service in the West Indies, writes Ian Bradley, Ramsay in England helped to inspire the crusade for Abolition.

Since Tudor times, and for four centuries, the observance of the Sabbath was strictly enjoined by Government regulation.

In 1701, writes L.R. Betcherman, a leading member of the Whig Junto retired to Rome for the sake of his health.

J.F. Battick and N.C. Klimavicz describe a parliamentary dispute over Cromwell’s statue.

A general, a poet, a Calvinist, for almost a year Montrose, in King Charles’s name, was master of Scotland. Five years later, writes Aram Bakshian, Jr., he was hanged in Edinburgh.

Before and after his surrender at Saratoga, writes Aram Bakshian Jr., Burgoyne had a lively career as a commander in Europe, a politician and dramatist in London, and a figure on the social scene.

Anthony Babington describes life in an eighteenth century London prison for felons, debtors and rebels.

Victorian Methodists, writes Stuart Andrews, carried on the keen interest in scientific subjects that had once been shown by John Wesley.

During the second half of the eighteenth century, writes Stuart Andrews, there existed close and important ties between American and French thinkers.