Subjects

History

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The Siege of Lucknow

During the Indian Mutiny, over a thousand men, women and children were trapped in the Commissioner’s residence at Lucknow.

596

The Nine Years’ War

King Louis XIV of France raised rebellion in Ireland to put his own man on the English throne.

597

The Darien Scheme

The Parliament of Scotland tried to liberate itself from London’s strangling single market.

598

The Voyage of the ‘Mayflower’

A crackdown on dissent in England’s established Church drove a band of Nottinghamshire townspeople to seek new shores.

599

Great Mother of Men

The spread of Western civilisation must not be credited to European policy, but to a culture of curiosity, enterprise and defiance.

600

Portrait of a Lady

Edmund Burke takes time off from campaigning for liberty to reflect on the delights of captivity.