Georgian Britain braced for war as relations with France in North America, India and mainland Europe took a turn for the worse.

John Buchan was moved by the way the nations of the British Empire volunteered for service in the Great War.

Arthur Wellesley watches on as one of his soldiers is rescued from a watery grave.

The East India Company’s top agent in India was also the man who put Calcutta on the world map.

William Cobbett makes a distinction between everyday business and the murky world of Westminster lobbyists and financial speculation.

Oldham’s firebrand MP William Cobbett rips into the the City of London for blocking economic and political progress in India.