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Georgian Era
Raw Haste
The French revolution failed because real liberty cannot be enforced overnight, or indeed enforced at all.
by Sir Reginald Coupland 1884-1952
The First World War
The Garden and the Machine
John Buchan compared how the Germans and the British understood their empires, and saw two very different pictures indeed.
by John Buchan 1875-1940
The Avengers
John Buchan was moved by the way the nations of the British Empire volunteered for service in the Great War.
Liberty and Prosperity
Hard Rain
Some likened tax-and-spend to a refreshing shower of rain, but for William Cobbett the rain wasn’t falling mainly on the plain man.
by William Cobbett 1762-1835
Character and Conduct
‘Never Trust Experts’
Lord Salisbury seeks to calm the Viceroy of India’s nerves in the face of anti-Russian hysteria.
by Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury 1830-1903
International Relations
The Supreme Indignity
Lord Salisbury tells his fellow statesmen that no country should have its laws dictated from abroad.