Political

Chinese labour in South African mines presented a problem to Liberal consciences, writes John Lehmann.

D.H. Burton writes that Roosevelt was one of the chief architects of an Anglo-American understanding that survived many diplomatic crises.

W. Bruce Lincoln describes how the European Revolutions of 1848 alarmed the Russian Government so much, it sent its armies to aid the Habsburgs in Hungary.

H.T. Dickinson & Kenneth Logue describe the events of a Scottish protest against the Act of Union with England.

On both sides, writes David Mitchell, during three years of conflict, political passions ran high.

George Woodcock describes the thrice nominated Democratic candidate for the Presidency, William Jennings Bryan, who eloquently expressed the feelings of the Western farmers at a time when the United States were first becoming a great international Power.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, writes D. Pepys Whiteley, an easy-going Royal Duke was deeply embarrassed by the scandalous revelations of a discarded mistress, and by the publication of his private letters.

During his many years of administration, writes H.T. Dickinson, Walpole was highly unpopular with large sections of the community.

A man of obsessions, a passionate racialist with a romantic belief in the virtues of the ‘sturdy peasant farmer’, Quisling ruled war-time Norway as a devoted pupil of the Nazi government.

W.J. Reader describes a scandalous episode that arose out of the transfer of authority in India from the East India Company to the Crown.