William Gladstone complained that some politicians talk about freedom but don’t trust the people enough to let them have any.

William Gladstone urges Government not to take away from people the things they have a right to do for themselves.

Blake throws heart and soul into an impassioned expression of his dream of a new England.

William Cobbett recalls his first taste of classic literature, for which he had to go without his supper.

Economist Adam Smith so changed the conversation in Britain that most people take his groundbreaking insights for granted.

A mild-mannered clerk in the British Embassy’s passport office in Berlin, just before the outbreak of war in 1939, was not all he seemed to be.