Victorian MP Richard Cobden offered a startling analogy for the American Civil War.

Imma claimed to be a harmless peasant, but there was something about him that Ecgfrith, King of Northumbria, found downright uncanny.

A London barrister indulges in courtroom theatrics to win a case, but it turns out that not everything is as it seems.

An improbable chain of coincidences led to one of the great medical revolutions just when it was most needed.

American journalist and poet WC Bryant numbered Richard Cobden MP among the world’s statesmen, not our politicians.

Young Thomas Arne goes to extreme lengths to conceal his musical talent from his family.