Before the Bobbies: The Caroline Riots of 1821
Stanley H. Palmer describes how, in an era before “the Peelers,” the army and a radical mob clashed in the streets of London on the occasion of Queen Caroline’s funeral.
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Bears in the Bosporus
The arrival in 1833 of a Russian fleet signalled Russian control for several years of the Bosporus and of the Turkish Empire, writes Lansing Collins.
Bart’s Hospital
St Bartholomew’s was refounded in the reign of Henry VIII. Courtney Dainton describes how, for nearly two centuries, it was one of only two major hospitals in England for the care of the general sick.
Baron von Steuben: Washington’s Drillmaster
Arnold Whitridge describes how a veteran from Frederick the Great’s army crossed the Atlantic in 1777 and helped to train the Continental forces.
August 1862: The Second Battle of Bull Run
Louis C. Kleber describes a crushing defeat for the North in the American Civil War, and its new Army Commander, John Pope.
At The Portrait Painter’s
David Mannings describes how the painters of the eighteenth century conducted their studios and sittings.
Arthur Griffith: Architect of Modern Ireland, Part II: 1916-1922
Griffith was neither a spell-binding orator nor a dashing leader; but, writes Richard Davis, he helped to ensure that no authoritarian regime was established in Ireland after 1921.
Anything Out of the Pack
In 1851, writes Marjorie Sykes, there were over 30,000 hawkers and pedlars on the roads of Britain.
An English Arctic Expedition: 1553
James Marshall-Cornwall describes a Tudor adventure, ultimately unsuccessful: Willoughby perished on the Kola peninsula; Chancellor reached Moscow and was received by Ivan the Terrible.
George Ticknor: An American Man Of Letters
Prudence Hannay recounts the life of the Bostonian who first set sail for Britain in April 1815. Ticknor would go on to pay his homage to and became the good friend of many European intellectuals. Among those he met were Byron, Scott, Goethe, Chateaubriand and Madame de Stael.