Lord Salisbury seeks to calm the Viceroy of India’s nerves in the face of anti-Russian hysteria.

Timur, Muslim lord of Samarkand, threw his weight behind the Golden Horde’s subjugation of Christian Russia, with unexpected results.

Amy Johnson of Hull had clocked only ninety hours of flying experience before taking off alone for Australia.

The Dutch explorer ran across two islands in the Pacific of which Europeans knew nothing, but his chief desire was to get past them.

Sir John Seeley urged us to cherish our close ties to India and other nations beyond Europe.

A quick overview of the Kings and Queens of England from Queen Anne in 1702 to George III in 1760.