Social

Robert Cecil describes how the preacher’s influence in the years before the American Revolution was as great as that of the press, and in New England probably greater.

As Governor and Senator, Huey Long, established a radical dictatorship in his native Louisiana; Peter J. King writes how, at the time of his death, Long was nourishing nation-wide ambitions.

John M. Coleman draws a distinction betweent the Thirteen Colonies and the rest of North America.

In the spring of 1777, writes Arnold Whitridge, an ardent young French nobleman set sail from Bordeaux to avenge himself against Britain.

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

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.

The Boers, writes R.F. Currey, made a paramount gain during the peace that followed the South African war.

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

At Toulon, writes Stephen Usherwood, the Royal Navy first became deeply involved in the affairs of the French Revolution.

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.