Four years before the bloody American civil war, Dr David Livingstone proposed a peaceful way to rid the world of slavery.

Welsh journalist Henry Stanley is despatched by head office in New York to find a missing British explorer.

In the year that Napoleon’s quest for European Empire faltered at Moscow, President Madison of the USA came to his aid.

Kim O’Hara starts his apprenticeship as a British spy with a little competition.

Adam Smith could not imagine it would ever happen, but he nevertheless recommended that Britain grant independence to her colonies.

Contemporary historian Ramanath Aiyar catalogued the ways in which Maharajah Moolam Thurunal led the way in modernising British India.